ISLAMABAD: The National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP) has devised a strategy for controlling accidents in the Kallar Kahar salt range area.
As many as 11 people were killed and 25 others injured in a bus accident on the Lahore-Islamabad motorway near Kallar Kahar on Saturday.
“In order to prevent accidents, the strategy of passing the buses from Kallar Kahar in the form of a convoy has been decided,” DIG (Motorway North Zone) Muhammad Yusuf Malik said in a statement.
He said NH&MP had formulated a strategy to protect the precious lives of public service transport, especially passengers and staff of passenger buses and other traffic on the Islamabad-Lahore Motorway.
He said for the purpose of road safety, it has been decided that buses travelling from Islamabad to Lahore will be issued time cards at predetermined safe places on the motorway and strict monitoring will be done with the help of speed-checking cameras and police patrolling officers at the Salt Range.
He said before the start of PSV Halt Point Area 232 km, the appropriate number of buses will be stopped at a safe place near the signboard and dispatched in the shape of convoys with motorway police mobiles about 10 km of salt range Kallar Kahar while on the rest of the journey, the existing rules of the National Highways and Safety Ordinance will continue to apply in the same manner.
According to the motorway police officials, through this effort, it would be possible to bring a significant reduction in the accidents that occur on the Motorway, especially in Salt Range Kallar Kahar.
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