Madras High Court Turns Down Centre's Proposal Of Increasing Highway Speed Limit To 120 kmph
Highlights
- Madras High Court has asked Centre to reduce high speed limits.
- Centre justified 120 kph highway speed limit better technology and infra
- Madras High Court believes that there is no compliance of road safety.
Centre justified that keeping in view the better engine technology and improved road infrastructure.
In a set of 12 queries raised by the bench, the first of which was for a direction to the central government to reconsider its 2018 notification, increasing the speed limit to 120 kmph. In its report, the Centre justified its action in increasing the speed limit saying that keeping in view the better engine technology and improved road infrastructure, an expert committee was constituted to review the speed limits of motor vehicles. As per its recommendations, the maximum speeds for vehicles on different roads had been revised by the Ministry in the April 6 2018 notification.
The maximum speeds for vehicles on different roads had been revised by the Ministry in the April 6 2018 notification.
But the present bench observed that though there was a better engine technology and improved road infrastructure, there was no improvement in compliance of the road safety rules by the motorists. According to the report released by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, the number of deaths taking place on roads would prove that more accidents were occurring due to speeding. In its statement the bench said that when speeding was a major cause for road accidents, it is not known as to how the improvement in road infrastructure and engine technology would reduce accidents. In fact, better engine technology would always be a reason for uncontrolled speed and thereby, cause more accidents.
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