India, Nov. 4 -- As winter approaches, traffic police have intensified patrolling and road safety checks across the National Capital Region (NCR) to ensure safe travel amid dropping visibility levels, officials said. Visibility had fallen below 1,000 metres during early hours last week, prompting enforcement measures such as installing reflective tapes, crash barricades, and additional deployments at major junctions and expressways.

Officials said an advisory will soon be issued urging motorists to maintain at least a 500-metre distance between vehicles at accident-prone stretches. "Heavy and large commercial vehicles, ambulances, cars and two-wheelers will be affixed with reflective tapes. Crash tyre barricades on dividers and sideways ...