To control spate of highway accidents, south Gujarat police will install CCTV cameras on national highway 48 between Valsad to Navsari in a first-of-its-kind move to keep an eye on traffic movement as well as rule violators.
SURAT: According to Union road transport ministry’s Road Accidents India Report of 2019, 9,200 lives were lost to wrong side driving while one-fourth of these cases, 2,726, were from accidents on the national highways.
To control spate of highway accidents, south Gujarat police will install CCTV cameras on national highway 48 between Valsad to Navsari in a first-of-its-kind move to keep an eye on traffic movement as well as rule violators. Vehicles caught flouting rules will be identified from its number plate and handed over for challan at toll plazas on both ends of the stretch.