To prevent increasing number of road accidents district police has identified certain places where extra patrolling has been directed. In addition to this, district traffic department has installed boards warning against speeding.Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Nivedita Kukreti said, “We have identified certain places on which there are reports of high number of accidents. One of those places is Nehru Colony, about which we have spoken to the Project Director of National Highway.
We informed them about the road conditions there, road there on the shoulder side is narrow, because of which vehicles lose control at that point. They are doing coal tar topping in the area which will hopefully bring some improvement.”She further added, “Other than this, an Interceptor vehicle has been stationed in Patelnagar area due to increasing number of road accidents.
The Interceptor will be patrolling the area in the evening.”Superintendent of Police (traffic) Prakash Chandra Arya said, “We have installed boards warning against speeding and overtaking near Kuanwala and Balliwala flyover respectively. Road accidents are increasing in Kuanwala, it is a bottleneck area too. At the flyover, even now public doesn’t seem to decrease their speed. This is basically to make people aware about maintaining their speed at these places.”