Enhance road safety measures to cut accident deaths, HC tells govt
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Vijayawada: The high court on Wednesday directed the chief secretary to consider the DGP's request for sanction of funds to give publicity on road safety in electronic and print media and take a decision within 10 days.
The court also directed AP Fibernet to file a status report on the technological integration of issuing challans by way of automatic detection of violations.
Thandava Yogesh, who filed the PIL challenging the inaction of authorities in implementing road safety rules, argued that deaths due to road accidents are more than those of murders in the state. He said while only 925 people were killed in Andhra Pradesh in 2024 according to NCRB data, more than 8,000 people were killed in road accidents because of non-implementation of various rules intended for road safety.
Yogesh further stated that the number of deaths involving two-wheeler accidents is on the rise, increasing from 3,703 to 4,276.
The HC bench, headed by Chief Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Justice Ravi Cheemalapati, asked why the number of deaths is increasing despite more people wearing helmets. Yogesh stated that helmet rule is being implemented only in Vijayawada and various other violations are also contributing to the increase in the number of deaths.
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Special govt pleader S Pranati said over six lakh challans were issued to violators and everyday road safety awareness programmes are being held, besides reviewing all accidents at the district level in the road safety committee meetings.
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