India, Aug. 17 -- Danger is ever present on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway, especially the stretch cutting across Palghar district on the Maharashtra side of the border. This 115-km-long section, extending from Vesave (near Dahisar) to Talasari, and connecting two major cities, is in focus, again, for its unusually high number of accidents and fatalities.

Now the Palghar superintendent of police Yatish Deshmukh has written to the Thane project director of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), identifying 14 "black spots" and demanding that the highway authority fix them on a war footing.

The letter, sent to the NHAI in the last week of July, said previous letters from the police on repairs and traffic safety measures had drawn ...