Bengaluru road accidents on the rise, cops work on Annual plan to tackle pedestrian deaths
The Hindu
The two accidents involving pedestrian deaths are among the six road accidents reported in the city on June 25. According to Alok Kumar, Additional Director General of Police, Traffic and road safety, 33% of the total number of fatal accidents are pedestrians .
Two people, including a 73-year-old woman, were killed in separate road accidents in Bengaluru on June 24 and 25. In the June 24 accident, a BMTC bus knocked the elderly woman Padmalatha (73) down while she was crossing the road on Kengeri satellite town main road. The bus ran over her and crushed her legs. She was rushed to a private hospital where she succumbed to the injuries on June 26 evening.
In the June 25 accident, 55-year-old Krishnappa was killed after a speeding car knocked him down while he was crossing the road at the zebra crossing on Dr Rajkumar road. The accident was captured on the CCTV camera which helped the Rajajinagar police to track down the driver .
The two accidents involving pedestrian deaths are among the six road accidents reported in the city on June 25. According to Alok Kumar, Additional Director General of Police, Traffic and road safety, 33% of the total number of fatal accidents are pedestrians .
Concerned over the growing number of pedestrian deaths, the head of traffic and road safety, in association with the city traffic police, are preparing an annual plan to minimise the deaths .
Mr. Alok Kumar has proposed long term, medium and short term plans, which, according to him, should go side by side to reduce the number of pedestrian deaths .
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Pedestrian safety was not in the priority list and the deaths due to many reasons are alarming, he said .
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