even though sufficient measures are provided under various enactments to curb the menace of the road accidents, both the Central and State Governments are slow in implementing the provisions
KOCHI: Central and state governments and road safety authority should take action on a war-footing basis to reduce the number of traffic accidents, the Kerala high court said.
A division bench comprising chief justice S Manikumar and justice Shaji P Chaly also asked the state government to take over lands agreed to be surrendered for widening of roads.
https://4006d9dcf969f2de6ffef1326d6b8759.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.htmlThe court considered a batch of petitions seeking steps to ensure road safety and for a court directive to hand over funds raised by the government for this purpose to the road safety authority.
Stating that safe roads are part of a citizen’s rights, the court said central and state governments should take action to provide safe roads without fail. Pillars and similar structures that pose danger to road users should be removed and vehicles and solid waste dumped by the roads should be cleared, the court directed. Branches of trees on lands adjacent to roads that extend to the road surface should be cut away, the court added.
