Urging the people in the State to drive carefully by following traffic rules, especially during the foggy weather, Haryana Transport Minister Krishan lal Panwar on Monday said that the department is installing speed governors in all commercial vehicles so as to put a check on over speeding of vehicles.
While cautioning that heavy fog results in increase in number of road accidents, the Minister said that reflector tapes are being fixed on all kind of vehicles to prevent such accidents.
He said that a special campaign will be launched to check such drunken driving and also, those found driving without helmets and seat belts, over speeding and overloaded vehicles. Drunken driving, over speeding as well as smoking and using mobile phones while driving lead to a large number of accidents, he added.
Notably, Haryana had witnessed 15679 accidental deaths in the year 2014. The high rate of accidental deaths were reported in Haryana at 58.5 percent against the national average rate of 36.3 percent, as per the latest report of “Accidental Deaths & Suicides in 2014” released by National Crime Records Bureau.
As per the report, the highest rate of accidental deaths was reported from Puducherry (96.3) followed by Chhattisgarh (84.6), Gujarat (59.2) and Haryana (58.5).
The state had reported 15,679 accidental deaths in 2014 while it was 11,872 in 2013 recording a variation of comparatively high 32.1 percent. In 2014, 702 deaths occurred due to causes attributable to forces of nature, unnatural cases of deaths were 11048 and deaths due to other causes stood at 3,929 in the state.
Panwar said that although people are becoming aware of traffic rules as a result of initiatives of Transport Department and Traffic Police and the number of road accidents has reduced as compared to previous years yet a lot more is needed to be done for strict compliance of traffic rules.