398 accidents, 121 deaths on Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway since Jan: Gadkari
The Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway has reported 398 accidents since its opening in January this year, claiming 121 lives.
The Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, submitted the statistics in a written reply to the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
He was responding to questions asked by Mandya MP Sumathala Ambareesh and her Hassan counterpart Prajwal Revanna.
Answering a question about safety measures to prevent accidents, Gadkari said the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) had installed speed limit signboards all along the expressway as per the Indian Road Congress (IRC) guidelines.
