According to a latest data revealed the Regional Transport Office (RTO) has issued nearly 8,500 challans for the motorists plying on Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway.
In the last nine months, from December 2022 to September 15, 2023, 8,479 challans were issued and a fine of nearly INR 26 crores was collected from motorists of Samruddhi Mahamarg.
This data was revealed on Sunday, October 15, a few hours after 12 persons were killed and 23 injured as a speeding minibus hit a container truck on Samruddhi Expressway in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
RTO officials stated that they have been issuing almost 32 challans every day for speeding, illegal parking, drunk driving, lane cutting, and other offences under the Motor Vehicles Act.
The transport department, which has a Road Safety wing, is stating that the RTOs have been taking drives on this 600-km long expressway from Shirdi to Nagpur, and inspecting vehicles.
These RTO squads work in nine divisions of Nagpur, Wardha, Amravati, Washim, Buldhana, Jalna, Aurangabad, Srirampur and Nashik.
These squads inspected close to 50,000 tyres of vehicles plying on this expressway, checked 4,600 bus drivers with breath analysers, and counselled more than 2,100 drivers for 30 minutes on road safety, sources stated.
Action taken by RTO:
Lane Cutting – 4100
Illegal Parking - 5,315
Without reflectors on vehicles - 2,143
Overspeeding - 450
Also Read: Samruddhi Mahamarg: 1,282 accidents, 135 deaths reported in 9 months
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