NHAI takes traffic police’s help to end speeding on Delhi-Mumbai Expressway

In order to curb traffic violations, particularly speeding, on Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, the National Highways Authority of India on Wednesday said it has connected the vehicle speed detection system to traffic police headquarters in Karnal for sharing data on violations for penal action and speed limit enforcement According to details shared by Gurugram police, 24 fines were issued for speeding and two for lane change in the past 15 days. NHAI officials said violations captured by their cameras, pertaining to speeding, wrong parking and lane changing are being shared with the traffic police since the third week of October, which has since started issuing online fines to violators. Around 20,000 vehicles use this expressway to travel between Delhi and Jaipur daily, as per NHAI officials, and the number is gradually increasing The decision to share data with Haryana Police was taken in the wake of a recent 20-day survey by the highways authority, which revealed that over 600 vehicles daily violated the speed limit of 120 kilometres per hour on the expressway, with a few vehicles clocking speeds as high as 200km/hour. Mukesh Kumar Meena, project director, NHAI, said they have connected the speed detection system with traffic police headquarters, and now information pertaining to violations will be shared with the police in real time.