Police to enforce strict rules to reduce accidents in Belagavi

Belagavi Police implement strict rules to curb road accidents during the sugarcane harvest season, ensuring public safety.

Belagavi Police have issued a set of instructions to the public and officers to reduce road accidents.

As per records, Belagavi witnesses over 800 accidents every year.

More than 800 people die in road accidents every year in Belagavi district and the District Police have taken steps to create awareness to prevent road accidents.

The frequency increases during the sugarcane cutting and transport season. In order to reduce preventable accidents, the police have introduced some rules.

They include avoiding stopping of sugarcane-laden lorries on roads and highways, compulsory use of braking lights and signals, pasting iridescent and luminous posters or flags on the rear side of loaded or empty sugarcane trucks and tractors, strict implementation of the no drunk driving rule and others.

Drivers must follow all these rules. Officers, on the other hand, have been instructed to book instances of drunk driving as attempt to murder cases, Superintendent of Police K. Ramarajan has, in a release, said.