940 booked for speeding on Koteshwar-Kalanki run
KATHMANDU, June 25 -- Police have booked 940 road vehicles in the past two weeks for speeding on the Koteshwar-Kalanki section of the ring road in the capital. Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD), Baggikhana increased surveillance on the 10.4 km stretch of road in an effort to curb speeding, which has rendered the road section unsafe.
"The division has started taking action against speeding in order to reduce the accident rate in the capital," chief of the division SSP Basanta Kumar Panta said, "The road section has contributed to more than 13 percent of the accidents in the capital in the current fiscal year," he said. Most of those speeding were found to be motorcyclists.
According to officials from MTPD, the division has set ...
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