DJ Venkatesh
Diglipur, Jan 16: On one hand the Andaman and Nicobar Police is celebrating road safety week but on the other hand overloaded trucks are making mockery of traffic rules.
It seems that taking inspiration from the truck drivers of Port Blair city, now the truck drivers of Diglipur have also started taking extra loads in their trucks at Diglipur Island, putting lives of others in danger.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands have already witnessed several terrible truck accidents in past, which occurred due to overloading but it seems that truck drivers have learnt no lesson from past and for them profit is the only motto.
Andaman Sheekha today spotted yet another overloaded truck at Diglipur. The truck bearing registration number AN 01, A-4195 was found carrying excessive load of steel rods and five persons. Surprisingly a PCR van was present just behind the overloaded truck but no challan was imposed on the truck.
Earlier, on 9th January 2014 Andaman Sheekha had published news regarding a tipper truck, bearing registration number AN-01, B 6523, which was carrying excessive loads of Steel Rods for some construction site of MES. According to reports, when the Truck was coming out of the Aerial Bay Jetty and was crossing a speed breaker, the front portion of the truck went upward and was hanging on mid-air while the rear half was touching ground with the excessive load of steel rods.
On 27 March 2012 Two labourers died when hundreds of steel rods from a heavily overloaded truck spilled on road and also over the labourers, who were sitting on the truck with those steel rods.
Again on March 30, 2013, a private truck laden with stone dust overturned near Swarajgram, Diglipur resulting in on the spot death of eight persons and seriously injuring to two persons and minor injuries to seven others.
It is good that traffic department is celebrating Road Safety Week, infact the Traffic unit at Port Blair is doing a very good job but the actual benefits of Road Safety Week will not reach up to the people until and unless stringent action is taken on those truck drivers, who repeatedly violate law by operating overloading trucks.
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