Police have filed a number of cases against traffic offenders, including a senior police officer, for using the wrong lane in Dhaka's Hare Road.
Mehedi Hasan, additional deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (traffic-south), said 44 cases were filed between 5pm and 7:30pm on Wednesday evening.
Twenty-seven motorcycles, 10 auto-rickshaws, a bus of Rajuk employees, a microbus of PWD, two private cars, a police car, a pickup and a car of a PSC member were found to have flouted traffic rules.
Mehedi said a senior police officer of superintendent rank was in one of the cars. A car used by PSC member Shahjahan Ali Mollah was also caught but he was not present. The driver was fined.
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Using the wrong lane is a common practice among senior government officials, officers of the armed forces and police, according to traffic policemen.
Last week, a number of vehicles, including some used by several senior government officials, were fined for driving on the wrong lane.
The car of an additional deputy inspector general of police was intercepted at Bijoy Sarani on Tuesday and fined Tk400.
DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia had said they launched their drive against errant drivers about a year ago. “What matters is following the traffic rules,” he said.
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He noted that using headphones or speaking on phones when driving were major reasons for road accidents.
“We are collecting footage and photos of such drivers [who use headphones or talk on phone while driving], trying to find them and filing cases against them,” the DMP chief added.
DMP filed 116,026 cases from July 2016 to June 2017 for using the wrong lane. In the last six months, 54,651 cases were filed – 930 were filed on last Monday and Tuesday.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
