Gaps in divider on National Highway causing accidents

Kompally: National Highway 44 became an accident prone area in recent times. Two wheelers are entering into open dividers and creating a menace putting the highway vehicles at an edge. The street lights on the highway are not used to show the roads during nights.

There are many narrow gaps between central medians on the busy highway of NH44. These openings are being used by the two-wheeler riders to cross the road from one side to the other side of the highway to save time. This is creating a major risk on highways.

Recently, a family travelling from Nizamabad to Hyderabad met with an accident. It happened due to the negligence of a rider who passed the gap without noticing car coming towards him. In order to escape the two-wheeler, car hit the stationed lorry in the lay bay.

"There are 10 to 12 deaths and nearly 18 to 20 commuters were severely injured in the accidents which happened in the past six months," says Ravinder Reddy, traffic inspector at Petbasheerabad After getting knowledge about the incidents, National Highways authority of India officials have promised to take proper remedial measures to seal the gaps between. "Taking this issue as a serious concern the work has been recently started on the highway and the work would be completed by October," says Durga Prasad, Project director in NHAI.