In its bid to rein in speeding vehicles, the Gurugram traffic police has decided to install around 42-speed detection and automatic number plate reading cameras and 24 surveillance cameras at 13 accident prone spots on the 86 km stretch from the Delhi-Gurugram border to Rewari on National Highway-48. The project will be executed in collaboration with Maruti Suzuki India limited (MSIl) and the State Government.
Seven spots in Gururgram and six points in Rewari, where the cameras would be installed, have been identified by the traffic police. In Gurugram, the cameras will be installed in collaboration with MSIl while for Rewari a proposal which was sent to the State Government is in the final stage, said a police officer.
Apart from the Expressway, traffic police are also planning to install such cameras on other stretches like Sohna Raod, Pataudi and Farrukhnagar Road to curb traffic mishaps.
“Recently the traffic department had conducted a trial run of these cameras on Golf Course Road Gurugram and the trial was successful. So the installation work of these cameras will be implemented soon”, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) traffic Pankhuri Yadav told The Pioneer.
The cameras will capture the image of a speeding vehicles, its registration number, photos of the driver and other relevant details, and send them automatically to the challan branch for an issuance of challans through a post. Also, the speed limits of the vehicles would be fixed in this equipment.
“The directions of the cameras would be installed in such a way that cameras can capture the vehicle registration numbers, photos of the drivers, so that nobody can be deny that they were not in the car or the vehicle did not belong to them,” the ACP added.
The traffic police will also coordinate with the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) of Dehli-NCR, including adjoining States to collect vehicle registration number details so that the challan branch could issue penalty via post to the errant drivers.
A data released by the traffic police shows that for the last six and a half years — from 2011 to July 2017 — that the NH-48 in Gurugram has claimed 2,968 lives in 7,331 total accidents.
Meanwhile, dangerous spots on NH-48 among other stretches in Gurugam have recorded 651 accidents in the same period.
The other stretches dangerous points recognised by the traffic personnel in Gurugram are Village lakhuwas Sohna-Palwal Road, Ambedkar Chowk Sohna, Qutab Plaza Faridabad Road, Bandhwari mod Faridabad Road, Subhash Chowk and Bakhtawar Chowk.
While on NH-48 Delhi-Gurugram border, Shankar Chowk, Iffco Chowk, Rajiv Chowk, Hero Honda Chowk, Khandsa Bus Stand, Kherki Daula Toll, Narsinghpur Village, Rampur Chowk, IMT Chowk, Manesar Bus Stand, Sidhrawli Village, Binola cut, Pachgon Chowk and Bilaspur Chowk are the dangerous and accident prone spots.
“The installation work of the cameras will be started soon, with these cameras we want to know the actual reasons of the accidents on the stretch the MSIl technical team will also help in this regard to the traffic police,” said Sibash Kabiraj, Gurugram’s Joint Commissioner of Police and State DIG (highways).