{"id":595532,"date":"2023-08-03T09:59:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T04:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=595532"},"modified":"2023-08-03T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T05:19:27","slug":"vehicles-speeding-at-160-kmph-caused-75-of-accidents-on-expressway-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vehicles-speeding-at-160-kmph-caused-75-of-accidents-on-expressway-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicles speeding at 160 kmph caused 75% of accidents on expressway: Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a third of the accidents reported on the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway in the last six months involved two-wheelers, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said on Wednesday, explaining the ban on motorcycles, auto-rickshaws and non-motorised vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Starting August 1, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which comes under the ministry, has banned these &#8220;slow-moving&#8221; vehicles from the main carriageway of the 118-km expressway.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said most accidents involving two-wheelers resulted in deaths or grievous injuries. Another 25 per cent of accidents were caused by rear-end collisions, mainly because slow-moving vehicles occupied the right-most lane and broke lane discipline, it added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a third of the accidents reported on the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway in the last six months involved two-wheelers, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said on Wednesday, explaining the ban on motorcycles, auto-rickshaws and non-motorised vehicles. Starting August 1, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which comes under the ministry, has banned these &#8220;slow-moving&#8221; vehicles from the main carriageway of the 118-km expressway. The ministry said most accidents involving two-wheelers resulted in deaths or grievous injuries. Another 25 per cent of accidents were caused by rear-end collisions, mainly because slow-moving vehicles occupied the right-most lane and broke lane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}