Slow Down For Safety

In view of a vexing scenario of road accidents even within the Kathmandu Valley, the Kathmandu Valley Traffic Police Office (KVTPO) has begun enforcing varied speed limits along various roads since Thursday (December 1) to reduce the number of such mishaps. The valley recorded a total of 10,733 vehicular accidents in the last fiscal year. Over-speeding was responsible for more than 3,500 mishaps among the total number of road disasters. According to KVTPO’s records, as many as 8,584 vehicles were panalised for plying faster in the valley in the first three months of the current fiscal year. In 2021/22, altogether 26,359 vehicles were charged for over-speeding throughout the nation. In the same fiscal year, over 2,880 people lost their lives in road accidents nationwide while as many as 7,282 others sustained severe injuries. What is more alarming is that the carelessness on the part of drivers, which also includes over-speeding, was one of the major reasons for those fatalities. This really calls for urgently limiting the speed of vehicles to check road accidents.