Panaji: A few fatal road accidents for 24 hours have claimed five lives and left one injury.
While these two accidents involved two-wheeled vehicles, the rest involved four-wheeled.
The four cases are self-accident according to traffic cells.
Traffic cells and road safety activists have called on direct steps to curb road accidents in the state.
“People must follow the traffic rules and obey the limit of speed.
Goa roads are not designed to speed up and there is a need to comply with the speed limit,” said Dysp traffic, North Goa, Salim Shaikh.
Apart from the condition of several holes and dilapidated from several state roads, Shaikh said that this accident occurred for reasons besides road engineering.
He said that the winding Arpora road where one car met the accident steps only 5M and cell traffic now proposed to PWD to build a fast barrier there, install road and expand the road.
Another car accident that took place at Bambolim Road.
There is traffic that can be ignored during the accident and stretch wide.
However, it was alleged that the driver of the car was drunk, which had pushed the cell of the traffic to restart the use of the Alcometer, which was suspended for pandemic “it was a high time.
We cannot see the life that perishes on the road because of drunk driving.
We will also step over the order Casing is fast now, “he said.
Street safety activist Roland Martins said that there is a need for barricades that are right near all water bodies and awareness programs for motorists, especially tourists, about what to do when trapped in a drowning vehicle.
He also emphasized the need to wear a seat belt by rear seat riders to ensure what happened to the victims of Bambolim accident did not repeat.
“Driving in Panaji is not the same as Canacona and Pernem not the same as Valpoi.
Even though there are two higher two-wheel fatalitys reported in Goa every year, this is a serious wake up call for those traveling in a car that feels the safety of the road does not concern them , “he said.
Road safety activists from Ponda Pramod Sawant said that this does not mean that road engineering can be ignored.
“We do not have infrastructure such as street warnings and the right signage about livestock zones, speed of lumps, etc., which when added to poor road engineering make a dangerous mixture for two-wheeled riders.
Night patrolling is needed in the beach belt and interior village area to look after Watches on the rash and driver who is negligent, “he added.