Panel to analyse road accidents

After the meeting at the North Goa Collectorate office, GOACAN coordinator and North Goa District Road Safety Committee member Roland Martins said that the committee has decided to conduct an analysis of all accidents in the State in coordination with other government departments and to upload them. He said that there will be better coordination between the Department of Transport and the Directorate of Education to implement projects for students on road safety issues at the taluka level.

The meeting also decided to print materials in vernacular languages for the convenience of people residing in rural areas of North Goa. Often the common man does not know what zebra crossing is, he said.

He said that the meeting also identified five cases where two or three persons were in accidents involving multiple vehicles. The third Sunday in November will be observed as World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.

Martins said that though there had been a good response to road safety during the just concluded Road Safety Week but the number of accidents had not reduced.

He said it was suggested that alcometers would be distributed to police and to KTC and messages would be flashed on the EV city buses to encourage road safety.