Police repair road medians on NH to mitigate accidents

‘Mishaps taking place on NH-16 due to unauthorised road openings’

A few days ago, a 22-year old youth from Visakhapatnam was heading towards Tuni on the NH on a two-wheeler. When he reached Nakkapalle, a 50-year-old on a two-wheeler coming from the other side suddenly entered the side on which the youth was driving through an opening in the median. According to the police, locals had removed the grills on the median and levelled it up unauthorisedly, so that they need not drive till the gap between medians to take an ‘U’ turn. The youth collided with the biker and received severe head injuries and is in coma in a city hospital. According to the local police, at least five to six accidents are being reported every month on NH-16 in Nakkapalle area reportedly due to vehicles crossing from one side to the other through the unauthorised road openings. Most of such accidents turn to be fatal, as per the police. With an aim to reduce to such accidents, the Nakkapalle police with the help of the NHAI authorities have taken up the job to close all such unauthorised openings by repairing the medians.