Rattled by increasing fatalities due to road mishaps on the NH-16 between the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack in the last few days, the traffic police on Tuesday identified five black spots on the highway.
Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Traffic DCP Bijay Kumar Sahu said the Batabhuasuni temple near Janla, Aiginia, the road near Hotel Crown, the Acharya Vihar over-bridge and Pahal have been marked as black spots. “We have decided to instal barricades and put up signages on the said areas for the first time on an experimental basis.
Due to previous records of those areas, we have identified the spots; but since there are also several other accident-prone regions, we will subsequently mark them as black spots as well,” said Sahu.
As part of the plan to reduce speed of vehicles, the traffic police would put up barricades from morning hours to 9 pm. Since plying of local vehicles reduces on the NH in night, the road would be cleared off the barricades after 9 pm to allow unhindered movement of heavy vehicles.
Notably, after five persons were killed in road mishaps in Bhubaneswar within a span of three days, Twin City Police Commissioner Satyajit Mohanty had on Monday directed the traffic cops to regulate the speed of vehicles by using interceptors wherever necessary.