Police challan 75 overloaded vehicles in Ludhiana

Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, June 25

To prevent road accidents caused due to overloading of transport vehicles, the Ludhiana traffic police have decided to take strict action against such violators. The traffic police challaned as many as 75 vehicles for overloading today. Some vehicles had loaded goods against the permitted heights and length as well.

Such vehicles can be commonly seen parked on highways, inviting road mishaps. A few days back an overloaded truck with iron rods had parked on the highway by driver in Khanna and a tourist bus from Bihar rammed into the truck killing two on the spot.

Joint Commissioner of Police (City) Deepak Pareek said many a times goods loaded hazardously on transport vehicles caused road mishaps in city. Now, the traffic wing of the Ludhiana police have decided to take against such violations.

Joint Commissioner of Police Pareek said he had started strictly told the in charges of Traffic Zone 1, Zone 2, Zone 3 , Zone 4 to challan and impound such vehicles. Nakas have been set up at the each nook and corner of the city to check such violations. He said more such drives would be conducted in the future to catch violators.

In a day, 75 such vehicles were challaned by the police. Traffic Zone 1 issued 16 challans, Zone 2 issued 35 challans, Zone 3 challaned 11 vehicles, Zone 4 issued 13 challans of overloading.

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