Thanks to strict policing, it was accident-free New Year in city
The Hindu
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New Year’s eve went off accident-free, thanks to the elaborate arrangements made by police of three commissionerates in the State capital.
This was the first time that there were no fatal road accidents in New Year celebrations in several years with police deploying a huge force for implementation of strict measures. The new Hyderabad police commissioner C.V. Anand himself was on roads till 2.30 a.m. as he supervised arrangements in all five zones of the commissionerate.
In an accident not related to drunken driving, an engineering student of Toli Chowki Khaja Basheeruddin Quadri, 24, was killed when the car in which he was travelling with his friends crashed into a divider and turned turtle near Patancheru bus stand on city outskirts at 1.30 a.m. The occupants of the vehicle were not drunk and were going to a dhaba in Sangareddy from Toli Chowki to consume biryani.