Mangalore Police to Finally Deploy Speed Guns to Reduce Over Speeding in The City & Impose Fines

Mangalore Police to Finally Deploy Speed Guns to Reduce Over Speeding in The City & Impose Fines

Mangalore Police Commissioner Anupam Agrawal has urged vehicle users to adhere to speed limits prescribed for different categories of roads as the police will use Mobile Speed Radar Guns to impose penalties for over speeding.

The police would deploy the speed guns at vantage locations along the roads and highways in the Commissionerate limits and book cases against those drivers exceeding the prescribed speed limit. Erection and display of caution boards, therefore, was necessary to keep the drivers aware of the speed limit prescribed for the particular road. The speed limit prescribed for passenger vehicles with capacity of nine passengers or less (M1 category) was fixed at 100 kmph for 4-lane roads with dividers, including National Highways and state Highways, 70 kmph within the limits of Mangalore City Corporation, City Municipal Councils and Town Municipal Councils and 70 kmph for all other roads. For passenger vehicles with more than 9 seating capacity (M2 and M3 category), the limits are, 90, 60 and 60; for all kinds of goods vehicles and two-wheelers, it was 80, 60 and 60, for two-wheelers and for autorickshaws the speed limit was 50, 50 and 50 kmph respectively.

The commissioner directed different agencies concerned including Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime and Traffic) B.P. Dinesh Kumar, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) Mangalore Project Director Abdulla Javed Zami, engineers from the Public Works Department, Mangalore City Corporation and Mangalore Smart City Ltd., for this purpose.