Only 0.07% of speeding vehicles challaned

New Delhi: After another horrific accident on the Yamuna Expressway killed 29 people, a report has revealed that while more 2.30 crore vehicles have violated the speed limit on the 165.5 km-long carriageway between 2012 and 2017, only 17,883 of them have been challaned. This means that in five years, only 0.07 percent of overspeeding vehicles on the "killer expressway" have been challaned.

Till March 2018, there have been around 4,956 accidents on the expressway, leading to 718 fatalities and 7,671 serious injuries. Data accessed by the Millennium Post has now revealed that 23.42 percent or 1,161 mishaps were caused due to overspeeding. Moreover, 595 or 12 percent of these accidents were a result of burst tyres on the carriageway. Official figures show that more than 7.65 crore vehicles used the Yamuna Expressway till 2017 since it's inception. With more than 2.30 crore of these vehicles going beyond the speed limit, it shows that 30.11 percent or nearly one-third of all the vehicles travelling on the high-speed carriageway do not stick to the prescribed speed limit.