Eye on road traps 8,000 traffic violators

Eye on road traps 8,000 traffic violators
DH News Service,Bangalore:
The Bangalore traffic police will on Sunday dedicate to the public five red speed enforcement cameras at Kamaraj Road junction, Hennur Road, Deve Gowda Petrol Bunk (Padmanabhanagar), C V Raman Road and J P Nagar. But the number of violations caught by the other four cameras during their trials havent been verified yet.

The new eye of the City’s traffic police — the red speed enforcement camera at the Kamaraj Road junction — has caught 8,000 traffic violators in the act during an eight-day trial.

Almost all violations were related to over-speeding and signal jumping. A majority of those who violated traffic rules were bike-riders and the camera has recorded their registration numbers.
However, the traffic violators can heave a sigh of relief as they would not be penalised, ACP (Traffic and Planning) N Narasimhaiah said.

He added that those caught breaking traffic laws on the camera from Sunday would be in trouble as challan notices would be served on them.

The Bangalore traffic police will on Sunday dedicate to the public five red speed enforcement cameras at Kamaraj Road junction, Hennur Road, Deve Gowda Petrol Bunk (Padmanabhanagar), C V Raman Road and J P Nagar.
But the number of violations caught by the other four cameras during their trials haven’t been verified yet.

Once the cameras record the details of the traffic violations red-handed, the registration numbers of the vehicles involved will be sent to the Regional Transport Office (RTO). The RTO will, in turn, get back to police on the identity of the vehicle owners, after which the challans will be dispatched.

“We have got BSNL lease lines connected with RTO, through which our office at the Public Utility Building (PUB) will receive the details of the vehicles. In case someone denies paying up for the challan, it would constitute another violation and the penalty would double,” the officer said.

DCP (Traffic-East) Seemant Kumar Singh said the violators will be given a week’s time from the date of the receipt of notice. In case, the violator fails to pay penalty in time then the case would be put up in the court where the violator will have to appear in person to pay penalty.

The traffic police are also going to insist on having a uniform kind of number plates, so that the registration numbers would appear clearly in the camera snaps.