Apart from improving traffic system at various parts of the State, Traffic (headquarters) which was recently formed in the State has assigned target of reducing road accidents by 10 per cent in six months in line with the High Court’s guidelines.
Noteworthy, drunk driving, rash driving, overloading, mechanical faults in the vehicles and faulty road engineering aside from the drivers’ negligence are among the reasons that cause road accidents, taking regular toll of lives. Apart from keeping vigil on them, the traffic headquarters would see to it that the people are made aware of the traffic rules so as to help them abide by them, said the state additional director general of police (law and order) Ashok Kumar after a meeting was held with AIG (traffic, headquarters) Kewal Khurana, senior superintendent of police Nivedita Kukreti, Dehradun SP (traffic) Deerendra Gunjyal and SP City Pradeep Kumar Rai at the police headquarters.
Before the meeting, Khurana who has been recently appointed assistant inspector general of police traffic headquarters visited various places in the state capital and reviewed traffic system with the officers concerned. Several decisions were taken during the meeting like arranging free parking facilities at Pacific Mall.
Besides, left turn at Bahal Chowk would be widened after levelling it with the help of JCB. Static and mobile duties would be assigned to City Patrol Unit (CPU) at 25 points in place of the earlier 12 points. Traffic personnel have been prevented from carrying mobile phones while on duty. An instruction has been issued to open parking slots at commercial complexes located along Chakrata Road and Rajpur Road. Besides, red light timing at important crossings would be recalibrated. No leave would be granted to traffic and police personnel in view of the upcoming Diwali festival while the police officers based in the mountainous districts have been directed to use Alcometres to prevent drunk driving. Furthermore, in view of Udham Singh Nagar district seeing spiralling accidents, senior superintendent of police of the district has been directed to review things in the accident- prone areas and to take measures to stop vehicles loaded with illegally mined materials aside from controlling overloading, underage driving and the like.