Lucknow police launches PRAMAAN to map accident hotspots, prevent road deaths
LUCKNOW: What if every road accident could tell police where the next one might happen? Lucknow police is now attempting to answer that question with PRAMAAN (Police Road Accident Monitoring , Assurance and Analytics Network), a dedicated five-member team tasked with turning accident records into preventive road-safety action under the Zero Fatality District (ZFD) programme.
“Rather than simply counting crashes, the team will analyse every road-accident FIR registered in the commissionerate since January 2024, extract around 25 key parameters and build a central database,” said DCP Traffic Raveena Tyagi on Tuesday.
The details include the exact accident location, latitude and longitude, time, vehicles involved, collision type, casualties, road classification, junction or mid-block location and other factors relevant to identifying recurring crash patterns.
The police will also cross-check these details against the Centre’s e-DAR/iRAD accident database.
Officials said the exercise aims to identify missing, incomplete or inconsistent entries, which is important because an incorrect location or road classification could eventually result in the wrong engineering or enforcement intervention.
Locations emerging as recurring or serious crash hotspots will be physically inspected, with police examining road geometry, visibility, lighting, signage, median openings, pedestrian movement, parking, junction design and other local conditions.
Drone imagery, geo-spatial assessment, photographs and videos may also be used, along with applicable Indian Roads Congress guidelines.
The resulting location-specific reports will recommend interventions ranging from immediate measures such as markings, signage and targeted enforcement to longer-term changes such as junction redesign, service roads, underpasses or other major engineering works.
Recommendations will be sent to agencies including NHAI, PWD, LDA, Nagar Nigam, Transport Department and Traffic Police, depending on the problem identified.
“A pilot exercise in Gosaiganj shows the scale of the analysis. Accident records from January 2024 to June 2026 covered 191 crashes and 104 fatalities, with 18 high-risk locations identified for further examination,” read details shared by the traffic department .
The system also has a real-time component.
Since July, new accident information from FIRs, UP-112, the Traffic Social Media Cell and the Traffic Police Helpline is being monitored daily.
Even incidents that do not eventually result in an FIR can be recorded after verification, giving police a potentially wider picture of crashes across the city.
UP-112 response vehicles have also been asked to preserve photographs, videos and other first-hand information from accident scenes.
A common WhatsApp coordination group now links UP-112, traffic control, the social-media cell, helpline, police stations, Critical Corridor Teams and ZFD personnel for quicker verification.
“Rather than simply counting crashes, the team will analyse every road-accident FIR registered in the commissionerate since January 2024, extract around 25 key parameters and build a central database,” said DCP Traffic Raveena Tyagi on Tuesday.
The details include the exact accident location, latitude and longitude, time, vehicles involved, collision type, casualties, road classification, junction or mid-block location and other factors relevant to identifying recurring crash patterns.
The police will also cross-check these details against the Centre’s e-DAR/iRAD accident database.
Officials said the exercise aims to identify missing, incomplete or inconsistent entries, which is important because an incorrect location or road classification could eventually result in the wrong engineering or enforcement intervention.
Locations emerging as recurring or serious crash hotspots will be physically inspected, with police examining road geometry, visibility, lighting, signage, median openings, pedestrian movement, parking, junction design and other local conditions.
The resulting location-specific reports will recommend interventions ranging from immediate measures such as markings, signage and targeted enforcement to longer-term changes such as junction redesign, service roads, underpasses or other major engineering works.
Recommendations will be sent to agencies including NHAI, PWD, LDA, Nagar Nigam, Transport Department and Traffic Police, depending on the problem identified.
“A pilot exercise in Gosaiganj shows the scale of the analysis. Accident records from January 2024 to June 2026 covered 191 crashes and 104 fatalities, with 18 high-risk locations identified for further examination,” read details shared by the traffic department .
The system also has a real-time component.
Since July, new accident information from FIRs, UP-112, the Traffic Social Media Cell and the Traffic Police Helpline is being monitored daily.
Even incidents that do not eventually result in an FIR can be recorded after verification, giving police a potentially wider picture of crashes across the city.
UP-112 response vehicles have also been asked to preserve photographs, videos and other first-hand information from accident scenes.
A common WhatsApp coordination group now links UP-112, traffic control, the social-media cell, helpline, police stations, Critical Corridor Teams and ZFD personnel for quicker verification.
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