Six people died and three were injured due to reckless driving in different parts of the metropolis, authorities said on Friday, one day after the police chief formed the Road’s accident analysis team of Karachi (Kraat) to analyze the increase in traffic accidents.
To address the growing number of traffic accidents in the city, especially those involving heavy vehicles, the additional police inspector of Karachi (AIGP) Javed Alam Odho formed Kraat to analyze its causes and present a detailed report to the authorities.
Karachi Traffic of the General Police of the Inspector General (DIG) Pir Mohammed Shah confirmed Dawn.com that six people lost their lives in traffic accidents in Karachi today.
“A bykea pilot, along with a passenger, was beaten by an unknown vehicle near the early Japan consulate in the morning,” he said.
He added that the vehicle crashed into the path, causing the couple to fall to the ground. They were transferred to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC), where the passenger was declared dead.
The Civil Police Station Lines (Sho) Khan Mohammed Bhatti said that the deceased’s identity could not be determined immediately, while it was said that the condition of the Bykea pilot was out of danger.
In another incident, Dig Shah said a pedestrian was killed in an incident of outrage in Liaquatabad last night. The Sharifabad Sho Mehar Yusuf police identified the deceased as Mohammed Shahid.
Sho Mehaha said Shahid was crossing the street when an unknown vehicle hit him and killed him.
In the third incident of this type, a man was riding a motorcycle when an unknown vehicle hit him in the northern bypass in Manghopir. Dig Shah said a witness told the police that a bus was involved in the incident.
Manghopir Sho Imran Ahmed Khan police identified the deceased as Wali Deedar.
Dig Traffic said that he classifies accidents as an eruption and negligent, adding that Kraat has begun to analyze the causes of accidents.
He said that the first incident investigated by the body was the accident near Frere Hall, and added that it was a “thorough process” to determine the causes of fatal accidents.
Separately, Mauripur Sho Chaudhry Aslam police said a 40 -year -old man, Bashir Ahmed, was hit by a trailer at a turning point near Muslim Kanta in Mauripur Road last night while wearing doors for a cabin in a Suzuki truck.
Ahmed died on the spot, while both drivers managed to escape, leaving the vehicles behind, which the police arrested custody.
In another incident, a 30 -year -old man died, while another man was seriously injured when a trailer hit his bicycle near the Qayumabad bridge last night, said a spokesman for the Edhi Foundation.
“The body and the injured were transferred to the JPMC, where their identity could not be determined immediately,” added the spokesman.
Separately, a spokesman for the Edhi Foundation said two men were seriously injured in an accident near Nasir Jump in Korangi last night.
They were taken to the JPMC, where one of them, identified as Immanuel Shahbaz, 18, succumbed to injuries during today’s afternoon treatment.
The rules that restrict the movement of heavy vehicles were recently implemented in the metropolis amid the growing traffic accidents that involve Dumpers and Petroleros and protests over the death of citizens.
Last month, the provincial government prohibited the entry of heavy vehicles into the city during the day, only allowing them to operate from 11 pm to 6 am
The Sindh government has also made it mandatory that all heavy vehicles in Karachi have a physical conditioning certificate amid the growing number of traffic accidents that involve Dumper trucks.
Rights activists and civil society members have said that the growing number of fatal traffic accidents in the city and the poor state of the application of the traffic law are human rights violations, that the State has not been able to safeguard.
Provincial legislators who belong to the Muttahida Qaumi Pakistan movement have also criticized the Traffic Police for their “failure” of controlling heavy vehicles that claimed more than 80 lives only in January.
