The Maharashtra Highway Traffic Police is taking one more step towards reducing the number of road accidents on national and state highways with the help of Integrated Road Accident Database or i-RAD, which was launched last year to centralise road accidents data. According to the department, they have received data from the past year and experts are working to analyse the same, which is expected in the next two weeks. 

“i-RAD was launched last year on January 26 in Maharashtra and four other states with the aim to collect data of accidents in states and districts, to analyse why, how and where the accidents are taking place. Based on this, policies will be made to prevent the same,” said Kulwant Sarangal, ADG Traffic, Maharashtra. He added that the data will also include the status of cop deployment in the area and response time.