CHENNAI: Flagging ‘overspeed’ on highways, the Madras has quashed a central notification issued in 2018, increasing the speed limit of vehicles on expressways from 100 km per hour to 120 kmph.
Blaming ‘overspeeding’ for most road accidents, the court also directed authorities to reduce the speed limit as per a previous August 5, 2014 notification, which prescribed 80 km per hour as maximum speed limit even on highways.
Refusing to accept the stand taken by the Union government that the speed limit had been fixed by an expert committee considering the improvement in the infrastructure and better engine technology of vehicles, A division bench of Justice N Kirubakaran (since retired) and Justice T V Thamilselvi said: “When overspeeding is a major cause for road accidents,
