Police think narrowing down a stretch of wide, smooth road using difficult-to-spot traffic guardrails can prevent car crashes.
The Bidhannagar commissionerate on Wednesday placed five iron guardrails in a zig-zag fashion near the spot on Major Arterial Road in New Town where a speeding Honda City had met with a fatal accident early on Tuesday.
Three teenagers sitting on the rear seat of the sedan died when the vehicle mounted a kerb, rammed into a pillar and flipped over on the service road before smashing into a pavement near Westin Hotel.
A senior officer of the commissionerate said the guardrails — also called crash barriers — had been put up to prevent rash driving. But in the process the road has become narrower, raising the risk of accident.
