Hyderabad: Earlier this year, investigation officials from Golconda police station, probing a road mishap case, grilled a truck driver named S. Yadi Reddy. The probe was special for the police because the victims were police personnel.
Twenty three year-old police constable J. Rahul Yadav was killed on the spot and three other constables sustained injuries when the overspeeding truck rammed into their outpost.
The accident scene gave hints to police that the driver was in an inebriated condition. He later confessed that he had purchased liquor from the road side and got drunk before he started driving to his destination at Bandlaguda. He lost control and rammed into the police checkpost at Ramdevguda.
In last Wednesday’s Karmanghat accident, in which a pedestrian was seriously injured, the driver had purchased liquor from a roadside wine shop and got drunk before crashing his vehicle.
In police records on drunk driving and road mishaps, a trend found was that many heavy vehicle-drivers were found drinking inside their vehicle after buying liquor from road side shops.
Continuous incidents of drunk drivers causing mishap on roads in city have again exposed the inability of state agencies to implement the Supreme Court guidelines on road safety, which was issued to chief secretary of Telangana state in November 2015.
After Goa, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have the most 'alcohol outlet density' near state highways and nationals highways, according to sources.
