11 people died in Dausa horrific road accident in Rajasthan on Tuesday, 9 serious injured are undergoing treatment at SMS Hospital in Jaipur. Most of the dead are small children. On this highway, 5 days ago, 5 people died in a tanker and car plot. Dausa MP Murari Lal Meena told in a conversation with Amar Ujala that this highway has become fatal. Local people call it Killer Road. Murari Lal Meena says that in the last one year, there have been many major accidents on this highway in which more than 250 people have lost their lives and have been injured three times more than this. Last month, on the same highway, a trailer hit a bike from behind, in which the woman sitting on the bike died on the spot.
Case of accidents on Dausa highway was raised in Lok Sabha: The case of accidents on the Dausa highway had also arisen in the Lok Sabha recently. Dausa MP Murari Lal Meena had raised the matter that NH 48 passes through Dausa which connects it to Khatushyamji. A large number of people from this UP and MP go to visit Khatushyamji using this highway. This is highway to lane. Apart from this, there are one and a half km behind flyover crossings as all the crossings this highway. Whereas flyovers are made along with crossings on highways.
No divider on highway: Local people say that there are frequent accidents due to technical flaws on this highway. They allege that accidents are increasing due to lack of dividers on the road and lack of four-lane. The villagers have demanded to remove the engineering flaws left in the highway and to four lane the highway. The villagers warned that if the shortcomings of the highway are not started soon, there will be a big agitation.
MP said, write letters several times to Road Transport Minister
(Dausa MP- Murari Lal Meena)
MP Murari Lal Meena told Amar Ujala that he wrote a letter to Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari several times to four this stretch of Dausa highway and to install dividers.
He said that it is very important to replace NH-148 (Dausa-Manoharpur Road) to four lanes. This route is a major route for devotees visiting Khatu Shyam ji and Mehndipur Balaji. In the past too, I had written a letter to the minister to four lanes of this 65 km long highway. In the last one year, about 250 people have lost their lives and thousands of people have been injured. In order to prevent such accidents in future, it is very important for this highway to have four lanes.
More than 250 accidents in a year and a half
According to local police In the recent past, more than 250 accidents have occurred on this highway, in which more than 80 people died and more than 300 have been injured.
Driver in custody
Police said the container driver was negligent due to the accident. The container driver was driving at a high speed and hit the trolley from behind. The container driver has been taken into custody by the police and the vehicle has also been confiscated. According to the information, 42 people were returning to Etah in UP after seeing Khatushyam ji in the container. Most of those who died are people from the same family.