Home Minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy informed the House that 15,100 people were killed in road accidents during the year 2011 across the State.
Replying to a question raised by TDP MLCs A Narsa Reddy, Ibrahim bin Abdullah Masqati and Dadi Veerabhadra Rao, she said that 42,869 accidents that took place in 2011 and 55,812 persons got injured. In the GHMC limits, 6,491 accidents took place in which 1,717 persons died and 6,144 persons were injured.
She informed the House that certain steps like identification of accident prone areas on National Highways, State Highways and other roads, erection of speed breakers, dividers, radium stickers and zebra cross lines were being taken as road safety measures. (INN)