Kadma police on Sunday recommended setting up speed-breakers and installing CCTV cameras on the marine drive due to frequent road mishaps taking place on the stretch.

The recommendation has been made to the senior superintendent of police, M.Tamil Vanan.

An accident killing a 10-year-old boy on Saturday prompted the police to make such a suggestion.

An unidentified SUV had hit the boy while he was crossing the marine drive from his house at a slum adjoining it. The SUV had sped away as soon as the mishap took place.

Following the boy's death during treatment of a head injury at the Tata Main Hospital, family members and the sympathisers had set up a blockade on the marine drive which continued for over three hours. The protesters were demanding compensation and measures to curb the frequent fatal mishaps on the marine drive.

Fatal mishaps on the marine drive that connects Subernarekha Road in Sakchi linking Jai Prakash Setu inango in Mango to Toll-bridge in Kadma linking Adityapur, are taking place frequently, in most of the incidents the slum dwellers along Kadma and Sonari fall victim.

On an average one person is killed on the marine drive a month.

Significantly, after every fatal mishap in which a slum-dweller is killed, local residents resort to setting up blockade on the marine drive.

The OC of Kadma thana, Manoj Thakur said, “As there remains very negligible traffic on the marine drive, riders of both two-wheelers and four-wheelers tend to drive at a breakneck speed, thus causing the mishaps.”

"As there is no speed-breaker on this nine-km-long stretch, the vehicle riders feel free to ride at their wishful speed. We have, therefore, recommended for setting up speed-breakers which should be set in the gap of every 300 metres, " said Thakur to The Telegraph Online.

The OC said as most of the vehicle riders tend to flee the spot after a mishap takes place, leaving no evidence of them to be traced by the police, an adequate number of CCTV cameras should also be installed at strategic points along the marine drive.

The OC said while recommending for the speed-breakers and CCTV cameras, they have also requested for setting up foot overbridge and drawing zebra crossing lines at the strategic points.