SC issues pan-India directions for road safety, says expressways should not become corridor of peril

Observing that expressways must not become corridors of peril due to administrative lethargy or infrastructural gaps, the Supreme Court has issued a slew of pan-India guidelines for enhancing road safety, including a ban on parking of heavy vehicles on such roads.

A Bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and A.S. Chandurkar pointed out that national highways constitute 2% of India’s total road length but account for nearly 30% of all road fatalities.