Nashik: Over 200 police personnel from Nashik city on Friday completed training of Integrated Road Accident Database (IRAD) system.
ACP (Traffic) Sitaram Gaikwad said that IRAD is a system started by the central government that will help in analyzing the cause of road accidents and take corrective measures to prevent accidents in the future.
He said that 60 police officers of 13 police stations also received the training. They will from now visit every accident spot in their respective jurisdiction and fill all the details in the IRAD application in their cellphone.
Apart from the police, officials of the municipal corporation, public works department, national highway authority of India and the regional transport office also have access to the application.
Once the details of the accidents are filled by the police personnel in the application, it is also visible to the officers of the other departments concerned. If the officials notice that more accidents are occurring at a particular road or spot, they can then take up various measures to prevent accidents in the future.
In 2020, a total of 935 motorists and pedestrians lost their lives in road accidents across Nashik district. The rural parts of the district had more accidents in 2020, despite of the two-month lockdown, compared to the number of accidents in 2019.
Senior officials of the Nashik police said that rash driving, wrong side driving, not following basic traffic rules, not wearing seat-belts and helmets were the main causes of road accidents and deaths.