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Revision as of 21:45, 26 October 2017
This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content. |
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Accidents
2012-15: Accidents on Yamuna e-way
The Times of India, Nov 06 2015
For more, See Road accidents: India
105 died on Yamuna e-way from Jan-Sept
Ftal accidents on the Yamuna Expressway have risen alarmingly despite a slew of road safety campaigns. Between this January and September, 105 people died in 656 accidents on the stretch, an RTI filed by the Agra Development Foundation, an Agra-based social organisation, says. Last year, the number of accidents stood at 771 and deaths at 127, reports Aditya Dev.
Year 2013 saw the most accidents, at 896, in which 118 people died. The RTI reply further says 2,598 accidents and 383 deaths have taken place on the expressway between August 9, 2012 and September 30, 2015. The number of fatal acci dents on the Yamuna Expressway seems to be going up each year, with the slew of campaigns being run on traffic rules and road safety guidelines showing very little or no impact whatsoever.
While the average number of accidents each month (many smaller ones go unreported) has increased substantially, from 64 in 2014 to 73 this year, so have the fatalities.Twelve persons lost their lives per month this year on this dangerous stretch; it was 11 in the previous year, prompting activists to say that the situation is going from bad to worse and better policing and enforcement is urgently needed.
An RTI query filed by Agra Development Foundation, a city-based social organisation, on the matter revealed in an answer that as many as 105 persons lost their lives in 656 accidents between January and September this year, while 127 commuters died in 771 accidents in the 12 months of 2014.
The RTI revealed that 2013 has been the deadliest, with 896 accidents reported. A total of 118 had died that year. KC Jain, ADF secretary , said, “The number of accidents on the e-way has been rising ever since it was opened for public on August 9, 2012.Following the RTI reply we have written to UP CM Akhilesh Yadav seeking his intervention in the matter.“
ADF had filed a PIL in the Allahabad high court on the rising number of accidents along the 165 km-long e-way connecting Noida to Agra.Consequently , the court directed the organization to send its suggestions to the state's high level committee on road safety on measures to reduce accidents. “However, instead of the situation improving, more accidents have taken place,“ said Jain, adding, “the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority has been lax in curbing the menace of speeding, the main reason for fatal accidents on the e-way .The authority has left this issue to the private concessionaire and is not taking any stringent step itself.“
The RTI reply further says that altogether 2,598 accidents and 383 deaths have taken place on the expressway between August 9, 2012 and September 30, 2015.
2012-17
RTI Reply States 626 Deaths In 4,505 Crashes Since 2012
An RTI reply has revealed that in just the first six months of 2017, 78 people have died in road accidents on the Yamuna Expressway .Between January 1 and June 30, 2017, a total of 432 road accidents were registered by police on the 196km-long AgraDelhi expressway .
According to the reply , in five-and-a-half years since its opening, the expressway has seen deaths of 626 people in 4,505 accidents, with 2016 reporting the highest number of accidents in a year.
In 1,193 accidents, 128 people lost their lives in 2016, while 919 accidents in 2015 resulted in deaths of 142 people.
Similarly , in 2014, 127 people died in 772 accidents, while there were 118 deaths in 898 accidents in 2013. Between August 9, 2012, when the expressway became operational, and December 31 of that year, 33 people died in 294 accidents.
In June, the Rail India Technical and Economic Services (RITES) after a study claimed that most of the accidents along the expressway were taking place between 1 am and 5 am, as motorists are inattentive during the “graveyard hours“.
It was also decided in the light of the study that Jaypee Infratech, the concessionaire of the 165km-stretch connecting Greater Noida with Agra, will offer tea and coffee to the drivers at three toll plazas along the route to ensure that they do not doze off at the wheels.
Brigadier (retd) PK Sheghal, in-charge of expressway operations, told TOI, “During a meeting on safety on the route, in which senior officials of Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA), RITES, police and private concessionaire Jaypee Infratech participated, a unanimous decision was taken to s erve tea, coffee and water to motorists. The move is aimed at reducing accidents on the expressway .“
According to K C Jain, secretary of NGO Agra Development Foundation, who filed the RTI query , “There are two main reasons for such a high number of fatalities on the road overspeeding and tyre bursts.“
