Accident prone zones which are black spots for traffic police are not new, but rectifying after identifying these zones still remains a problem with the agencies assigned to address the issue of road safety.
Addl SP (Traffic) Sameer Yadav said that steps to reduce accidents in accident prone zones are taken up by traffic police but negligence by other agencies responsible for rectifying the problems in these zones leads to delay and danger of occurring of accidents remains unchanged.
An area in which five serious accidents or 10 road accident deaths have occurred in the past three years is accident prone zone. An accident prone zone is a stretch of 500 metres and factors responsible for the accidents are identified and concerned agency is provided with the details of the problems and their role and responsibility which could help in resolving the issue, he added.
Yadav said that a total of seven agencies are responsible in addressing the issue of road safety. Public Relations Department, Traffic police, RTO, Health, PWD, Health and Education department are assigned with addressing issue of road safety under the Madhya Pradesh Road Safety Policy-2015.
The traffic police have taken some measures at the black spots such as installing boards of speed limits, installing stoppers, deploying police personnel and installing traffic signals. These black spots include the stretch from Hamidia hospital to GAD over-bridge at Koh-e-Fiza locality, the stretch from Nadra bus stand to Sabzi Mandi at Hanumanganj locality, Bairasia road near Sonkatch at Berasia locality, RRl trisection at Bagh Sewaniya locality, BHEl gate number 1 near ESI Hospital at Piplani, lNCT College road Bilkhiriya, main road near Sanchi Dhaba Sukhi Sewaniya.