Chennai porsche accident: Top cops blame it on odd hours and staff shortage

Chennai: The top brass of the Chennai traffic police wing, shocked by the high profile car crash on early Monday morning on Cathedral Road in Mylapore in which one auto driver was killed and 8 others injured, pointed out that they were not in position to man roads for drunken driving during early hours with the existing manpower.

“We don't even have 2000 personnel in traffic wing. We start our day as early as 6 am. We do lot of shuffling to make sure there are enough police personnel to do drunken driving checks till midnight. Traffic policemen too have to go home and get some sleep. Then only they can attend a busy hours next day which starts a 6 am," pointed out a senior traffic police official. The official also pointed out that traffic police book 100-150 people for drunken drive daily and the number go beyond 200 during weekends. “Despite all these, these kind of stray accidents happens and it shows us in bad light," the officer added.

You people are asking why we could not stop the speeding drunk Porsche car driver during early hours on Monday. But what you don't understand that we avert so many possible mishaps by booking 100 to 150 drunken drivers daily, the officer noted.

Don’t you think citizen have responsibilities? A good number of use call drivers to go home after consuming alcohol. “This boy wanted show off his driving skills and crashed the car belonged to somebody else,” the officer added.