Fewer deaths on E-way

RIGHT TRACK Iron fence, foot overbridges help curb accidents on Delhi-Gurgaon Highway

GURGAON: The number of accident-related deaths on Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway between June and December 2009 has declined by 40 per cent compared with the preceding year.

Twenty-five deaths were reported in 2009. The figure for the same period in 2008 was 45.

The figures also point to a decline in the number of pedestrian deaths - from 16 in 2008 to 13 between June and December in 2009.

The work of erecting two-metre-high iron fence on the median of the expressway to discourage pedestrians from crossing the stretch on foot was completed in June 2009 only. A sign that the fence may have had a role in fewer pedestrians trying to cross the road , leading to fatalities.