Directing the authorities to maintain the toll road properly, the court said toll plazas must have a separate dedicated lane in each direction for ambulance and exempted vehicles.
The dedicated lane must have security personnel on duty at both the entry points with a safety cone or it should be manned with a boom barrier manually operating so as to clear the ambulance and exempted vehicles without loss of time.
In Kerala, Toll Booths have a separate line for emergency vehicles. But in the below mentioned video we can see somebody closed the emergency pass way and the ambulance driver hit the barricade and rushed to the hospital.
Ambulance rushed through Toll Plaza – VIDEO
Video – Abhilash K
Certain toll plazas have separate lanes for toll free traffic. But, those lanes were blocked with heavy boulder stones and other heavy material objects. There are no separate staffers to man these lanes. Therefore, even the ambulances have to wait for considerable time to cross the toll plaza. This would cause loss of life to those who were taken in ambulance. It will also contribute to the delay in passing through.
In some of these toll plazas, vehicles have to wait minimum 15 to 20 minutes. Till this was cleared, even the ambulance and exempted vehicles have to wait in the queue.
