HP to promote road safety campaign to curb accidents

Himachal Pradesh Transport Minister Bikram Singh on Wednesday said the road safety campaign would be promoted as a mass campaign to establish road safety culture to check accidents in the state. After the meeting of State Transport Development and Road Safety Council, Bikram Singh said around 95 percent road accidents were caused due to human errors.

“Out of these 62.86 percent accidents are caused by over speeding which could be reduced by making people aware of road safety.

The department has carried out a comprehensive road-safety awareness campaign in the state and districts which has resulted in a decrease of 7.62 percent road accidents, 5.13 percent in death rate and 11.65 percent decrease in injured persons,” he said.

Singh said a total of 3110 accidents took place in 2018 in which 1202 persons lost their lives while 2873 accidents took place in 2019 in which 1146 persons were killed. State Transport Minister said the Transport and Police Departments will jointly make efforts to make Himachal Pradesh a safe state by making people aware of wrong habits like over speeding, drinking and driving, overloading and over taking.