NASHIK
: In the four-year period of 2016 to 2019, as many as 3,902 people lost their lives in 9,260 road accidents across the district. Moreover, 7,648 people escaped with injuries — both grievous and minor.
Given a large number of accidents and deaths, the Nashik Regional Transport Office (RTO) on Saturday organised a brainstorming workshop at the Children’s Traffic Education Park to analyse the accidents and come out with measures to bring down the numbers.
“The highest number of road accidents take place on relatively open roads — like the state or national highways — where there is scope for motorists to speed their vehicles. Overspeeding, wrong-side driving and overtaking from the wrong side lead to maximum road accidents,” said Vinay Ahire, the deputy RTO of Nashik.
“An analysis has revealed that older vehicles were involved in the least number of accidents, whereas vehicles that are less than five years old were involved in the maximum number of accidents,” Ahire added talking on concerns about the road-fitness of older vehicles.
It was also found that the highest number of accidents take place between 3 pm and 6 pm and two-wheeler riders account for most fatalities.
The insights provided by Jitendra Patil, the joint transport commissioner (Road Safety Cell, Maharashtra), RTO Nashik Bharat Kalaskar, chairman of Nashik First Abhay Kulkarni, project director of
NHAI Bhausaheb Salunkhe
proved useful to all RTO officials and inspectors of Nashik, Malegaon, Srirampur, Ahmednagar, Dhule, Nandurbar, Jalgaon and Dhule and officials of the NHAI and other departments.
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