A completely loaded truck travelled about 3km on the wrong side of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway on Tuesday before it was noticed and at last penalised ₹2,000 by the Ghaziabad visitors police.
Officers of the Nationwide Highways Authority of India (NHAI) mentioned the errant truck was noticed by their management room which alerted the freeway patrol they usually in flip knowledgeable the visitors police.
The visitors police mentioned the truck was laden with LPG cylinders and was coming from Meerut when its driver obtained confused and obtained on the expressway on the ABES crossing close to Crossings Republik.
“The truck was coming from Meerut and on the ABES crossing, it drove straight on to the expressway, as an alternative of taking a flip. It drove for about 3km and took a U-turn on the wrong side before the driving force realised his error. The errant truck was quickly noticed by the visitors police and it was made to exit the expressway safely. A penalty of ₹2,000 was imposed on the driving force for wrong side driving,” mentioned Ramanand Kushwaha, further deputy commissioner of police (visitors).
He claimed that the visitors police was not alerted by the NHAI management room; moderately, the visitors police themselves noticed the errant truck.
Nonetheless, the NHAI officers mentioned autos on the expressway are often monitored by their management room by way of a sequence of CCTV cameras.
“We don’t have to manually detect such autos as our cameras mechanically decide up such errant autos. Our system acquired an alert a couple of truck travelling on the wrong side and this was instantly knowledgeable to the freeway patrolling workforce. The workforce reached the ABES crossing and knowledgeable the visitors police who took up enforcement towards the automobile,” mentioned an official from NHAI, who requested to not be named.
Such wrong side driving has proved deadly on the expressway previously. On July 11, a yellow bus was driven on the wrong side for about 7.2km and collided head on with an SUV coming from Meerut close to Behrampur, leaving six passengers within the SUV useless.
Figures from the visitors police present that there was no lower in situations of wrong side driving on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway and the Japanese Peripheral Expressway stretches falling inside Ghaziabad.
The figures point out that the police penalised about 11,979 errant autos driven on the wrong side in 2022 and 22,854 fines have been issued for wrong side driving in the course of the interval from January to July this 12 months.
A complete of 59,848 fines have been issued for dashing on the 2 expressways in 2022 whereas 35,455 such fines have been issued in the course of the interval from January to July this 12 months, confirmed visitors police.
