Why highest road accidents take place in JK only: Kadfeen asks Govt. 

Srinagar: Congress leader Kadfeen Choudhary on Thursday while expressing grief over the fatal road accident on Mughal Road questioned the government’s inaction in putting lid over such a lethal trend.

While expressing sympathy with the families of those killed in Peer Ki Gali accident, Kadfeen said that the recurring road mishaps are in actual revealing how the government has been trying to put the issue under the carpet and leaving the innocent lives to perish sadistically.

He said as per the government’s own statistics, Jammu and Kashmir ranks second across India in the tally of road accidents per 10,000 vehicles with an average of over 900 deaths every year in the last five years.

Kadfeen also questioned why there is no implementation of Road Safety Bill that was presented in the Legislative Assembly to provide for the constitution of State Road Safety Council and the establishment of Road Safety Fund. He added that less number of traffic cops coupled with bad quality of road is turning the state into a hub of fatal road mishaps and that if immediate measures aren’t taken, the situation will continue to deteriorate.