We have another horrific accident in Porvorim where 3 lives were snuffed out. It is reported that the driver of the ill-fated vehicle was speeding. This is the problem. With improved roads in Goa along with flyovers etc drivers tend to test their cars to see how fast they can go. This is where accidents happen because of over speeding.
One way to minimise such accidents is to make all passenger vehicles with an engine capacity in excess of 1500cc very expensive. This can be done by raising the GST on them or levying additional road tax. If this is done then the number of powerful vehicles on the roads will reduce curbing the tendency to speed by drivers thus limiting the number of accidents and the fatalities therefrom.
