Some traffic experts portend accidents to rise after the completion of the National Highway 66. This is supported by the statistics that the number of accidents in Tamil Nadu did not show a dip but rather a spike, even after the completion of wide six-lane and eight-lane highways. Vehicles are allowed to ply at a higher speed in these routes, which may implicitly encourage rash driving and thus accidents.

However, in Kerala, many lives were lost on the roads even before the construction of the National Highway was completed. The accidents were not caused by excessive speed. Rather, poor standards, negligence, and lack of hazard indicators were to blame.

The incident in which Alappuzha native Rajesh, the driver, died after a huge girder fell on top of his pickup van during the constructio

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