India, Dec. 2 -- Highway users will soon start receiving real-time safety alerts through SMS, WhatsApp messages and high-priority voice calls as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) rolls out a telecom-integrated warning system aimed at reducing crashes across national highways.

The NHAI on Tuesday announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Reliance Jio for the same, and soon similar exercises will follow with other telecom service providers so that the system eventually caters to all highway users regardless of their mobile network. The goal is to create a unified, telecom-agnostic safety layer across the country's expanding expressway and highway network.

The alerts will inform commuters about acc...