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AP bid to minimise highway mishaps
The Andhra Pradesh government is contemplating to bring in world-class infrastructure along national and state highways to lessen the number of accidents and deaths along the highways.
- Road Safety Council will advise govt on removing black spots
- Trauma centres at every 100 km along national highways
- They will have orthopaedic specialists, general physicians
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Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh government is contemplating to bring in world-class infrastructure along national and state highways to lessen the number of accidents and deaths along the highways. The AP government wants to set up trauma care centres for every 100 km along the national highways and for every 60 km along state highways and other major roads.
Speaking to The Hans India, B Sam Bob, Principal Secretary in the Department of Transport, Roads and Buildings department, said: “The reconstituted Road Safety Council goes much beyond its formal set-up as envisaged in the Motor Vehicle Act.
For instance, the new council will advise the government not only on removing black spots, but on setting up the trauma care centres along the highways in order to reduce deaths. Such centres will have orthopaedic specialists along with general physicians."
The government wants to provide common transmission sets for the line departments, namely Transport, Police and Health departments. “Worldwide studies show that a majority of deaths can be avoided, if the accident victims get treated in the golden hour. The police should inform in advance the health department about the people who are posted at the trauma care centre to be ready with the kind of equipment needed for a particular accident case,” Sam Bob explained.
As highways are getting more and straighter, vehicle drivers are speeding like never before and this in turn is making it difficult for them to negotiate a curve on the road or another vehicle coming in the opposite direction.
“Our department has identified such curves along highways, and the government’s aim is to neutralise all these ‘black spots’ as per a short-term and medium-term plan.”
Putting up sign boards at least a kilometre ahead of each black spot, in both the directions would be the short-term plan, while the medium-term plan would be about removing such curvatures by straightening the road after carrying out land acquisition wherever required.
However, building the needed infrastructure would require lot of budgetary allocations, but this would not deter the government from going ahead, according to top officials in the department.
The Road Safety Council will have Chief Minister as Chairman and Minister for Transport, Roads and Buildings as its vice-chairman. Principal Secretaries of Transport, Home, Health, School Education, Finance, Municipal Administration & Urban Development, Legal affairs and CEO of EMRI will be ex-officio members of the Council.
The 30-member Council also includes representatives of NGOs and lorry owners’ associations.
