Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked officials to follow the ‘5E’ formula of Education, enforcement, engineering, emergency care and Environment to curb road accidents.
He also termed as “worrying” the fact that while COVID-19 claimed 23,600 lives over three years in UP, road accidents led to the loss of 21,200 lives in just one year 2022.
The will be carrying out a month-long campaign on road safety from January 5 to February 4. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said the responsibility for road safety was not just limited to one department and community effort was needed to prevent accidents.
Other than poor road engineering, over speeding, overloading, not using safety equipment and driving in inebriated state were the major causes of road accidents.
Most cases take place in large cities like Kanpur Nagar, Agra, Prayagraj, Aligarh, Bulandshahr and Mathura.
The chief minister said that efforts should be made to focus on national highways and expressways linked with these cities. He said a task force should be set up to check overloading.