1. Bengaluru road accidents: Cops draw up annual plan to tackle pedestrian deaths
Concerned over the growing number of pedestrian deaths in the IT city, Alok Kumar, Additional Director General of Police, Traffic and Road Safety, in association with the Bengaluru Traffic Police, is preparing an annual plan to minimise the casualties.
According to Mr. Alok Kumar, 33% of the total number of victims of fatal accidents in Bengaluru are pedestrians. He has proposed long term, medium and short term plans, which, according to him, should go side by side to reduce pedestrian deaths.