Jammu, Feb. 13 -- Authorities have identified as many as 200 accident-prone sites, communally called as "blacks-spots" on highways across the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari said that in order to make black spots accident-free, the Government has taken steps for immediate short-term measures on black spots like road markings, signages, crash barriers, road studs, delineators, closure of median openings, traffic calming measures, etc.
When asked whether the Government is aware that most accidents occur in these black spot areas on National Highways, the Ministers said, "Long-term measures like improvement of road geometrics, junction impr...