NEW DELHI: An ominous “Charo Maarenge (All four of us will die)” Facebook Live session featuring four friends engaged in a dangerous pursuit of speed formed the prelude. bmw Everyone died in an accident at Sultanpur on Purvanchal Expressway last Friday.
Police said Dr Anand Prakash, a 35-year-old professor at a private medical college in Bihar’s Rohtas, was apparently at the wheel when the BMW hit him at a speed of 230 kmph amid the excited chatter of his co-passengers, Police said. Live footage showed a friend saying the speedometer might touch 300kmph next, to which another jokingly expressed a wish for death which turned into tragically predictable moments.
The BMW crashed into a truck and was reduced to a rubble. Blood-soaked bodies of residents including engineer Deepak Kumar, realtor Akhilesh Singh and businessman Mukesh were lying on the highway. The victims – all from Bihar and in their mid-30s – were on their way to Delhi.
Sultanpur SP Somen Barma said all aspects related to the accident are being probed and a team has been formed to trace the absconding container driver, who has been charged with causing death by negligence pending a technical inquiry into the accident. Is. “Technical inspection of BMW and container truck will be done with the help of a forensic state laboratory,” the official said.
Anand Prakash’s uncle AK Singh told TOI that his nephew had bought a BMW from the owner of a private educational institution in Delhi.
Half-finished roads approved? burden on officials
Considering the serious and fatal accidents on National Highways have hurt their reputation NHAIThe authority has said that it will hold the officials who issued provisional certificates for the projects and take action against them before completing the road safety works ‘responsible’.
In a recent circular, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) stated that the provision of Provisional Completion Certificate specifies that a road may be permitted for operation, with minor works being carried out with the condition that these should be completed within 30 days. It also specifies that pending items should not include those that “may cause material inconveniences to users or affect their safety”. Pending items are placed under a category called ‘Punch List’.
“However, it has come to notice that provisional completion certificates are being issued keeping safety items/works such as road marking, road signage, final treatment of crash barriers in the punch list, which not only compromise the safety of the users, but also bring bad. Name the NHAI on the incidence of accidents and deaths,” the circular said.
The highway authority said it has taken serious note of such “negligence of duty” by the representatives of NHAI and the independent or authority engineers involved in the issuance of the provisional completion certificates. It said that the persons concerned should ensure that the road safety works are completed in all respects before issuing the certificate.
“The Regional Officer/Project Director/Independent Engineer/Authority Engineer shall be liable for any fatal/serious accident(s) arising out of poor road engineering works and inadequate or poor installation of road safety facilities,” the circular said.
Sources said that setting up of road safety facilities is given the lowest priority in the projects. National Highways alone account for about 35% of road deaths in the country, despite being barely 2% of the entire road network. The high speed and volume of traffic make these parts more vulnerable to accidents.
Addressing the National Convention of the Indian Road Congress on Saturday, both the Union Road Transport Ministers Nitin Gadkari And UP CM Yogi Adityanath had urged the engineers to ensure that there is no road accident or death due to bad or poor engineering. Gadkari It also said that construction of safe roads is important even when the pace of construction is slow.
watch Purvanchal Expressway accident: Moments before fatal collision, video shows BMW car speeding up to 230 kmph
Police said Dr Anand Prakash, a 35-year-old professor at a private medical college in Bihar’s Rohtas, was apparently at the wheel when the BMW hit him at a speed of 230 kmph amid the excited chatter of his co-passengers, Police said. Live footage showed a friend saying the speedometer might touch 300kmph next, to which another jokingly expressed a wish for death which turned into tragically predictable moments.
The BMW crashed into a truck and was reduced to a rubble. Blood-soaked bodies of residents including engineer Deepak Kumar, realtor Akhilesh Singh and businessman Mukesh were lying on the highway. The victims – all from Bihar and in their mid-30s – were on their way to Delhi.
Sultanpur SP Somen Barma said all aspects related to the accident are being probed and a team has been formed to trace the absconding container driver, who has been charged with causing death by negligence pending a technical inquiry into the accident. Is. “Technical inspection of BMW and container truck will be done with the help of a forensic state laboratory,” the official said.
Anand Prakash’s uncle AK Singh told TOI that his nephew had bought a BMW from the owner of a private educational institution in Delhi.
Half-finished roads approved? burden on officials
Considering the serious and fatal accidents on National Highways have hurt their reputation NHAIThe authority has said that it will hold the officials who issued provisional certificates for the projects and take action against them before completing the road safety works ‘responsible’.
In a recent circular, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) stated that the provision of Provisional Completion Certificate specifies that a road may be permitted for operation, with minor works being carried out with the condition that these should be completed within 30 days. It also specifies that pending items should not include those that “may cause material inconveniences to users or affect their safety”. Pending items are placed under a category called ‘Punch List’.
“However, it has come to notice that provisional completion certificates are being issued keeping safety items/works such as road marking, road signage, final treatment of crash barriers in the punch list, which not only compromise the safety of the users, but also bring bad. Name the NHAI on the incidence of accidents and deaths,” the circular said.
The highway authority said it has taken serious note of such “negligence of duty” by the representatives of NHAI and the independent or authority engineers involved in the issuance of the provisional completion certificates. It said that the persons concerned should ensure that the road safety works are completed in all respects before issuing the certificate.
“The Regional Officer/Project Director/Independent Engineer/Authority Engineer shall be liable for any fatal/serious accident(s) arising out of poor road engineering works and inadequate or poor installation of road safety facilities,” the circular said.
Sources said that setting up of road safety facilities is given the lowest priority in the projects. National Highways alone account for about 35% of road deaths in the country, despite being barely 2% of the entire road network. The high speed and volume of traffic make these parts more vulnerable to accidents.
Addressing the National Convention of the Indian Road Congress on Saturday, both the Union Road Transport Ministers Nitin Gadkari And UP CM Yogi Adityanath had urged the engineers to ensure that there is no road accident or death due to bad or poor engineering. Gadkari It also said that construction of safe roads is important even when the pace of construction is slow.
watch Purvanchal Expressway accident: Moments before fatal collision, video shows BMW car speeding up to 230 kmph