The district administration has decided to tighten enforcement measures across the district to check the accidents caused by tipper lorries.
The decision was taken at an all-party meeting called in the wake of a medical student being killed in a freak road accident near Vizhinjam on Tuesday after a rock slipped from a tipper lorry, transporting a load of stones for the seaport, fell on him.
District Collector Geromic George, the police, and Motor Vehicle Department (MVD) have been directed to check the fitness of the vehicles carrying stones to Vizhinjam. The port developer was directed to submit a list of tipper lorries that would be pressed into service in connection with port construction to the police. A special squad of the MVD has also been tasked with checking the overload of tipper lorries, said the Collector.
