Road Safety Month: With 16 deaths Per Day, Can Odisha meet Gadkari’s 50% Cut Challenge? |OTV News

Bhubaneswar: Even because the pandemic induced lockdowns and night time curfews had a huge impact in bringing down the variety of mishaps on-road and the resultant fatalities in Odisha, the depend of individuals killed within the State within the yr 2020 was hardly something that may very well be termed as comfy.
Sample this. When 16 lives had been misplaced per day in 2019, the toll within the first 7-months (April – July) of the yr 2020 was 11 per day. Significantly, almost 4 of the 7-month interval had been the months underneath coronavirus restrictions like lockdowns and night time curfews.
Therefore, the true story has been that regardless of the strict implementation of the brand new Motor Vehicles Act within the State, the primary two months of the yr 2020 (January – February) had recorded virtually the 2019 toll fee of 16 per day. With a complete of 980 fatalities through the first two months of the yr 2020, the interval had a share of round 41 per cent of the entire street mishap deaths within the State.
2020 ROAD MISHAP AND DEATH TOLL
While the toll in street mishaps in 2019 had been round 5,333, the provisional depend of the street mishap toll within the State within the yr 2020 had been round 4,800. This swift dip in mishap toll within the State has been attributed to the covid-19 restrictions that had been in power for over two-fifth span of the yr.
Meanwhile, the provisional knowledge out there with the State Transport Department places the variety of street accidents final yr within the State at round 9,500 as towards 11,064 in 2019. And rural areas account for over 70 per cent of the mishaps, whereas in fatalities, the share of rural areas stood at 76 per cent of complete street mishap fatalities.
ODISHA IN COUNTRY’S MAP
The purple sign for the State is when the variety of street accidents within the State had grown by mere 5 per cent through the interval 2015-2019 (2020 has been excluded because it was not a standard yr); the deaths on the street grew by a whopping 24 per cent throughout the identical interval.

While within the mishap depend, Odisha had been ranked fifteenth within the nation, within the fatalities on street the State was ranked at twelfth.
The deadly reality: Odisha ranked at fifth among the many main states within the indicator of numerous accidents on the street that turned deadly. In Odisha, for each 100 accidents, round 44 turned deadly in 2019. The doubtful checklist is led by Bihar and is adopted by states like Punjab, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh.
The worrying home-truth is the variety of deadly accidents within the State had clocked a 20 per cent rise for the interval of 2016-2019.
KILLER STRETCHES IN ODISHA
As per the State Transport Department report, the Sambalpur – Sohela stretch of National Highway -53 has been recognized as the most important killer stretch in Odisha.  Over 13 die each 10 km on this NH-53 part. The NH-316 part of Bhubaneswar – Puri follows with 12 deaths each 10 km.
Even because the NH part between Jaleswar and Ichhapurm sees 11 deaths per 10 km, however this stretch bears the best burden of street fatality in absolute numbers. On a median, this NH stretch witnessed 521 deaths a yr. It is adopted by stretches of Manguli – Sambalpur and Bhubaneswar – Puri.
In the given context, when the Union Surface Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has set an formidable goal of reducing the street accidents, and the resultant fatalities, by 50 per cent earlier than 2025, can Odisha meet the Gadkari problem?
As per the previous member within the Supreme Court-appointed Road Safety Committee, Maqbool Ali, to be able to meet the problem, the Odisha authorities has to financial institution extremely on expertise and re-engineering of the roads.
“Since Odisha has one traffic cop for every 10-12k people, the State government has to go for smart traffic management. It has to install CCTV led traffic monitoring in high vehicular density areas, in order to track and nail the violators of traffic guidelines like over-speeding, overloading, signal jumping and wrong side driving etc.,” outlined Ali.
Besides, he emphasised on initiating structural enchancment to the street networks within the State. For occasion, he defined how the T-junctions must be re-engineered to curb the excessive order of fatalities in such street constructions.
“In the current T-junctions, the tail road merges abruptly with the top road. There is a need to run a 50-meter parallel road to the demerging road, in order to avoid road accidents,” he defined.
THE BUMPS IN ODISHA
While straight roads within the State represent round 54 per cent of the entire mishaps, the T-junctions account for an additional 11 per cent. The toll in curved roads stood at 1016 or 19 per cent of complete street fatalities.

Odisha can meet the problem offered the State authorities deal with implementing visitors norm benchmarks and street re-engineering. The street knowledge is proof to it.
Fatalities on the straight street account for almost 54 per cent (2,866) of the entire street deaths within the State, which is attributed to over dashing, drunken driving and non-adherence to different visitors norms.
And the T-junctions contribute one other 11 per cent (548 deaths). See the picture of T-junction and the way it’s liable to accidents.

 
It appears junctions have emerged as the primary contributor to the dying toll on the roads within the State. Along with T-junction, Y and 4-road junctions killed one other round 592 in 2019.
SEE THE IMAGES OF OTHER JUNCTIONS: how they’re liable to accidents?

How Y-Junctions seed Accidents? The gentle purple shade is knowns as A-pillars blind spot – means –
Due to the acute angle of the automotive (inexperienced colored automotive) exiting the minor street and coming into onto the foremost street, A-pillars (the 2 pillars both aspect of the windscreen) can usually produce a blind spot. This blind spot as may be seen within the picture can simply obscure a bike owner or motorcyclist.
How Strict Traffic norms should for 4-Junction? See the picture under

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