Over-speeding tops traffic violations list in Telangana

Hyderabad: Speed thrills but kills is a quite popular adage seen on signage boards put up by the Traffic Police across the State. However, defying speed limits, many continue to drive at high speed, forcing the police to act. This year till June 30, police have booked 7.61 lakh cases and collected a penalty of […]

Hyderabad: Speed thrills but kills is a quite popular adage seen on signage boards put up by the Traffic Police across the State.

However, defying speed limits, many continue to drive at high speed, forcing the police to act. This year till June 30, police have booked 7.61 lakh cases and collected a penalty of Rs 68.51 crore. Ironically, over-speeding continues to top the violation list across the State in the first half of the year.

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In all, the police registered 14.75 lakh cases for over-speeding violation, over-load in goods vehicles, wrong parking of vehicles on highways and other roads, goods vehicles carrying passengers, use of mobile phone while driving and not wearing a seatbelt.

Over-speeding cases were booked under the Motor Vehicle (MV) Act against violators using Speed Laser Guns, which were installed at strategic locations on highways.

Meanwhile, experts said collecting fines would not yield results. Proper counselling should be given to errant motorists, they said. JNTU Coordinator and Principal Investigator (Accidents and Urban Flash Floods) Professor KM Lakshmana Rao attributed over-speeding accidents to behavioural change among drivers, which could be addressed only through proper counselling.

Explaining how over-speeding resulted in fatal accidents, police officials advised drivers to adhere to the prescribed speed limits. On June 29, reckless drunk driving of an Audi car killed one person in an auto near Inorbit Mall in Madhapur. A few weeks after this incident, at least seven people died when two speeding cars collided at Hajipur in Nagarkurnool district.

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