LUDHIANA: The traffic police have started a drive against the overloaded vehicles and in two days, the police have issued over 85 challans to violators.
Under this drive, the police issued 10 challans on Wednesday and 75 challans on Thursday.
On Wednesday, two people died in a road mishap when a passenger bus rammed into a parked truck on Ludhiana- Delhi highway near Khanna.
It was an overloaded truck from which iron roads were hanging behind.
Joint commissioner of police, Deepak Pareek, said, “On Wednesday, we started a drive against the vehicles that overload and cause road mishaps.
Usually, vehicles carrying iron roads invite such accidents, as the rods are hanging outside the vehicle.
We have issued 10 challans on Wednesday and 75 challans on Thursday.” JCP added that on zone 1, 16 challans were issued, in zone 2 35 challans, in Zone 3 11 challans and in zone 4 13 challans were issued.
He added the drive is being conducted in areas like Focal Point, Industrial area, Sahnewal Chowk, Shiv Chowk, Veer Palace, Samrala Chowk, Gill Road and Transport Nagar.
“On Wednesday night, the city police are also starting a drive against the vehicles using illegal LED lights on their vehicles.
It is observed that the youngsters get extra LED lights installed in their cars to give their vehicles a fancy look.
However, these lights are so sharp that it would literally make you blind for a few seconds and thus also invite accidents.
I have directed the assistant commissioner of police-traffic Gurdev Singh to start the drive against such violators immediately.” Challans on Friday- Total challans of overloaded vehicles- 80 Challan issued to vehicles found without number plate- 33, impounded 4