Gurgaon: Fatal accident at Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway on Wednesday once again put the spotlight on accident mitigation efforts from traffic police and road construction agents, especially during foggy seasons when the level of visibility dropped.
On Wednesday, a 27-year-old man died after his car crashed into a stationary pickup truck near Atlas Chowk.
While investigations are taking place, initial investigations have revealed that reducing visibility because the fog might result in drivers who did not pay attention to pickup trucks parked at the Expressway underpasses, poor law lighting and law enforcement, and lack of scientific investigations of fatal accidents for such accidents during the foggy season.
According to them, when the vehicle traveled at a speed of 80-100 kmPN suddenly, a trip around 120-200.
meters before coming to jam.
Because visibility drops to a range of 10-20 million or even lower because of the fog, it becomes difficult for a driver to measure the distance of the vehicle in front of them.
The problem deteriorates when this is added with signage and a bad sign, and there is no step to calm speed, they say.
Expressions suggest that in addition to reducing the speed limit during the foggy season, the government must consider collaborating with Google implementing a smart traffic monitoring system (ITMS), where users can be given information about the upcoming turn, vehicle damage and speed limit at least 200m in advance.
“Under the system like that, the user will get information that the vehicle has been damaged by 200 m in front and can change the path, or that there is a right turn and can reduce the speed accordingly.
At present, there is no right signage to inform the commuter.
There is not scientifically placed “The toll road crosses a place to live and is treated as a normal city road in the practical sense.
So, the first step we have to accept it and then start there.
Then, we can encourage to reduce the speed limit to 50 kmph and install traffic signals and separation rules Line, “said Sarika Panda Bhatt, a road safety expert.
What steps have been taken to prevent accidents due to poor visibility, the police claimed that they had formed a Fast fog support team (F-Fast).
The road safety officer has also been assigned to improve the drive to install reflector tapes on the vehicle and intersection prone to accidents, they said.
F-Fast included a zone officer, one police officer, two housekeepers and two street safety officers.
His job includes combing the road in the city and looking for road structures and other design problems that can be a safety danger in low visibility days.
“We have increased our efforts to find out the weakness of road design and coordinate with the agents concerned to fix it.
We have formed F-Fast to drop an accident on the road because of the fog.
We have also improved our drive to install reflector tapes on vehicles and objects -Pendish along the way like a tree and pole, “said DCP (traffic).