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Identification of offending vehicles is difficult in the night, says R. Krishnamoorthy A couple of days ago, a woman motorist Swathi (28) riding a two-wheeler towards the city along the Tiruchi-Pudukkottai Highway was run over by a tipper lorry. A passer-by passed on the lorry number to the police and instantly the owner of the vehicle registered at Chennai could be traced to Aruppukottai in Virudhunagar district through the Vehicle Tracing System (VTS) in place. Nevertheless, after checking up with the check posts along the Highway, a police team led by Inspector, Control Room, Jothi Mahalingam, zeroed in on the vehicle stationed at a workshop in Mannarapuram. The driver was arrested and remanded. Even otherwise, the police would have traced the offender through the VTS, as was the case in another ‘hit and run’ case earlier this year. But such successes are far and few in between. This year, the traffic police registered 14 fatal hit-and-run cases and nine non-fatal cases till date. In the entire Central Zone, there were 103 fatal cases and 227 non-fatal cases during the year. Unless the vehicle type and the registration number are known, there is little that the authorities can do to trace the vehicle, says an official of the traffic wing. In the ‘hit-and-run’ incidents during night, the police find the task of identifying the offending vehicles all the more difficult. It is next to impossible to expect the victims suffering grievous injuries to note the number of the speeding vehicles. Even if they gather consciousness to register a case hours after the incident, considerable time is lost by then. Dealing with ‘hit-and-run’ cases remains a grey area for the police. One way of reducing the probability of accidents is through enforcement of speed limit. It is possible in the city where the speed is usually controlled by traffic density. But along the Highways, where swiftness is the key, enforcement of speed limit is next to impossible. The entire onus is on drivers to prevent accidents. Superintendent of Police, Tiruchi Rural, N. Rajasekaran, sees a solution in four-laning of highways. Not only is the scope for accidents reduced due to the impossibility for head-on collisions on the four-lane roads, the vehicles also have to necessarily stop at toll gates at periodic intervals. At such places, the noose could be tightened around vehicles with external damages.
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