Great news!! Special drives by the police against 6 traffic offences in Chennai have brought down the fatalities now!!
Posted on: 22/Oct/2022 9:40:43 AM
Gone are the days when Chennai used to witness many road accidents and deaths due to these accidents!!
Despite the huge number of vehicles on the roads, the overall road accident rate has not increased in Chennai now. Thanks to the efforts taken by the police!!
Special drives against the 6 major traffic offences have brought down the fatalities in chennai now by 12percent this year when compared to the last year. There were around 2700 road accidents in the first 10 months in the years 2021 and 2022. It was brought out by additional traffic police commissioner Mr. Kapil Kumar Saratkar that maintaining the same accident rate as last year was highly commendable on the part of the team. It is known that this year the restrictions have been removed and the roads in Chennai were opened up for the traffic.
It was mentioned by the data that Greater Chennai Traffic Police or GCTP have registered 513 fatal road accident cases till October in 2021 and registered 90 fewer cases in 2022.
As many as 3 special drives were conducted against 6 major traffic offenses such as driving without helmet, driving without wearing a seat belt, using mobile phones, drunken driving, signal jumping and stop line violations etc.
These drives have proved to be highly effective in bringing down the fatalities now on the Chennai roads. It is learnt that in every road accident, the deputy commissioner for traffic would go to the spot immediately to study the cause of the accident. This was revealed by Mr. Kapil Kumar.
