Mohali roads get less bloodier

Mohali roads have become less bloodier with the fall in the number of fatal road mishaps in the past six months of this year as compared to the corresponding period last year.

With almost 7 per cent fall in the total number of road mishaps this year,the casualties have also come down by over 16 per cent.

As per the figures compiled by the district police,as many as 103 persons were killed and 116 were injured in a total of 226 road mishaps between January and June 2011 whereas a total of 243 road accidents during the corresponding period in 2010 had claimed 123 lives and had left 176 persons injured.

With the killer stretch between Mohali and Kharar on National Highway-21 getting four-laned and also the Kharar-Banur Road as well as other major roads getting wider across the district,the flow of vehicular traffic has improved resulting in fewer accidents.

Still there are a total of 42 black spots and accident prone areas,which the district traffic police have identified for still claiming the precious lives,DSP (Traffic) Darshan Singh Mann disclosed.

We are trying to get these spots and areas safer by stationing our highway patrol parties close by and putting up proper markings on the roadsides for advising the commuters to slow down and drive carefully at these places, Mann said.

The most fierce accident of this year was the head-collision between a Tata Sumo and Tata Safari on NH-21 near Kharar,which claimed the lives of a brother-sister duo and a 10-year-old minor girl besides leaving 15 injured on June 30.

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The road stretch between Kharar and Mankheri village on NH-95; Kharar and Banmajra village on NH-21; Zirakpur and Gagan Chowk Rajpura; Zirakpur and Sales Tax Barrier Jharmari on NH-21 towards Ambala were kept under the round-the-clock vigil of three highway patrol police parties.

Accident prone areas

MOHALI:ZIRAKPUR: Dhillon factory T-point on Ambala Road in Zirakpur to Dera Bassi bus stand; Zirakpur main chowk to Chhat village on Patiala Road; Dera Bassi bus stand to Jwaharpur bus stand; Bhushan factory on Ambala Road in Dera Bassi to Gholumajra village; Dera Bassi to Punjab Palace Cinema on Barwala Road

LALRU: Bus stand to ITI Chowk; bus stand to Sarsini village; Gholumajra to Lalru; Lalru to Jharmari Sales Tax barrier; Handesra bus stand to Bora Khera T-point

MULLANPUR: Sales Tax barrier to Siswan T-point.

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