Give Way To Ambulance or Face Penalty
From Wednesday, Delhi traffic police will follow emergency vehicles armed with video cameras to collect evidence of violators. The next time if you don’t give way to emergency vehicles such as ambulance, prepare yourselves to find a traffic cop at your doorstep with a challan of Rs 2000.
Five teams will travel in police vans or ambulances fitted with sirens for educating vehicle owners, who refuse to give way. These errant vehicles will be stopped on the spot and educational advisory and literature given to them. And then they will be let off with a warning. The educational drive is expected to go on for a week. “We will extend the function of these educational teams if need arises,” explained a senior traffic police officer.
From Wednesday, traffic police will follow emergency vehicles armed with video cameras to collect evidence of violators. Ten such teams have been constituted, five of which will be posted at five major hospitals in every traffic police range — AIIMS, Ram Manohar Lohia, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Hindu Rao and Deen Dayal Upadhyay. The rest will be constituted to educate commuters, said traffic cops.
“Each of these teams, comprising a zonal officer and two more traffic police officers, will follow these emergency vehicles and with a video camera record any vehicles that do not give way to the emergency vehicles. This videographic data will then be scrutinised centrally and a challan of Rs 2000 will be issued and handdelivered to the registered address of the errant driver. Non-payment of challan within seven days will invite a court summon,” said joint commissioner of police (traffic) Satyendra Garg.
“We will also carry out advertisements and use FM channels to spread the word. This is to carry forward the message of traffic management during Commonwealth Games. Fire tenders, PCR vans and ambulances are high priority vehicles. Any delay can make a difference between life and death,” said a senior traffic police officer.
Section 115 of the Motor Vehicle Act prescribes all general vehicles to give precedence to emergency vehicles. These include ambulance, fire brigade vehicles and PCR vans. But VIP vehicles with red beacon will not be considered emergency vehicles.
Emergency vehicles on duty will compulsorily ply on the extreme right lane of the road and any general vehicle moving ahead will have to come to the extreme left lane and stop on hearing the siren, failing which it will be considered a violation, said traffic cops.
Similar action was taken in October during the Common wealth Games where 365 such errant vehicles were issued challans in a single hour drive in October last year. At that time the errant vehicles were issued challans of Rs 100.
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