Times of India: Agra: Saturday, July 22, 2017.
The Uttar
Pradesh transport department, which has started sending notices to people at
their homes for speeding on Yamuna Expressway, has decided to suspend driving
licences of people who have been challaned more than four times. So far, 11,634
such people have been found, of which more than 500 are from Agra, according to
transport department officials.
This data was
presented at a meeting on Wednesday when transport officials from Agra and
YEIDA (Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority) were present to
discuss the growing number of accidents on the expressway.
Anil Kumar,
Agra regional transport officer (RTO), enforcement, said, “We have started
issuing notices. It takes time to locate the addresses where the vehicles are
registered.”
Ajay Mishra,
ARTO, enforcement, said, “It was difficult to get hold of every speeding
vehicle even when transport officials were on duty at the expressway. Many
drivers were not aware of the gravity of the situation, how over-speeding has
made the expressway prone to accidents. It has been decided that if any vehicle
is found with more than four challans, the transport department will suspend
the driving licence immediately.”
In an earlier
report, Kumar had said, “We have tied up with toll tax officials to provide us
the complete list of speeders. Once the list is received we can find addresses
of the vehicle owners and send notices to their homes to pay their fines at the
transport office within a stipulated time.”
Officials
said that the defaulter will be charged under Section 304A (causing death due
to negligence) and fined between Rs 300 and Rs 500. “Sometimes when we inspect
the vehicles we find that other traffic rules have been violated like driving
licence was not renewed, fitness certificate was not there and others. In those
cases defaulters are fined more than Rs 1,000 each,” Mishra said.
From June 1
to 21, 807 challans were issued on the expressway for speeding, out of which
109 vehicles were from Agra. According to a recent RTI reply, Yamuna Expressway
saw 1,193 accidents in 2016, killing 128 persons. In 2015, 142 persons lost
their lives in 919 accidents. In the four and a half years since its opening,
the expressway has seen the death of 548 people in 4,076 accidents, with 2016
reporting the highest number of accidents in a year.
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