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Challans for traffic violators soon
City traffic cops and Road Transport Authority (RTA) personnel have decided to issue challans to vehicle owners, who have violated the traffic rules.
Visakhapatnam: City traffic cops and Road Transport Authority (RTA) personnel have decided to issue challans to vehicle owners, who have violated the traffic rules.
The men in uniform are hopeful that the new system will be bring a change in the attitude of the public and make them wear helmets, fasten seat belts and avoid talking on the mobile while driving.
Despite of preventive measures initiated by the Traffic department, the number of road accidents are on the rise in the city. Two-wheeler riders were accountable for over 40 per cent of the total fatal road mishaps in and around the city, while four-wheelers were responsible for 30 per cent of the road crashes.
Deputy Transport Commissioner (DTC), S Venkateswara Rao said that the wearing of helmets and fastening of seat belts has already been made compulsory for vehicle riders in Andhra Pradesh. About 50 percent of motorists don’t wear the helmet while riding on two-wheelers or as pillion riders and the same percentage of four-wheel drivers have been ignoring the use of seat belts, he stated.
With the support of city traffic police, the DTC said that they have been conducting surveillance with cameras on motorists at major traffic junctions and few places in the city for various traffic violations such as triple riding and riding on the wrong route.
Additional DCP (Traffic) M Ramesh Kumar said that the enforcement officials are sending the challans to violators’ houses with a visual proof (photo) of violation.
If the violators did not pay the fine, then the violation would be linked to the records of their vehicle’s Registration Certificate(RC) and the fine would be collected with a penalty during resale or transfer of the vehicle or seizure of the vehicle. He also said that 500 traffic violations took place in the city for the last few days.
