Lucknow, March 3 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath said hospitals should be set up on both sides of expressways similar to food plazas to ensure immediate medical assistance for road accident victims. He called for the establishment of trauma centres, along with deployment of ambulances and trained medical staff, at hospitals in all divisional headquarters.

The CM also ordered strict action against illegal vehicles and overloaded trucks, a ban on liquor shops on highways and expressways, and a crackdown on minors operating e-rickshaws.

Chairing a meeting of the Uttar Pradesh State Road Safety Council here on Sunday, Adityanath emphasised inter-departmental coordination to curb accidents, and stressed that road safety committee meetings ...