India, May 18 -- A traffic and road safety audit is underway on at least 14 of the 30 black spots identified this year across the Gurugram district, where a high number of accidents were recorded over a three-year period, district traffic police officials said on Saturday.

The black spots, identified in May through the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways' app "Sanjaya", are spread across 18 locations, including 16 on high-speed corridors and expressways since 2023. The app tracks the yearly Integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD) to identify accident-prone stretches. Under the norms, a 500-metre stretch is declared a black spot if it records either five accidents, including one fatality, or 10 fatalities over three years.

The distr...