Trying 3D paintings as virtual speed breakers: Gadkari

NEW DELHI: To check rash driving, the government is considering putting up three-dimensional (3D) paintings on major highways and busy roads to create virtual speed breakers, Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari said today. "We are trying out 3D paintings used as virtual speed breakers to avoid unnecessary requirements of speed breakers," Gadkari said in a tweet today. The tweet has gone viral ever since the minister floated the idea to curb the menace of rash driving, which has claimed many lives in road mishaps. India witnesses as high as 5 lakh road accidents in a year, in which 1.5 lakh people die and another 3 lakh are maimed.