Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Transport Minister Antony Raju on Tuesday said the road accident death rate has come down in the state after the Artificial Intelligence (AI) cameras became operational.

Raju, after an evaluation meeting of the AI cameras installed across the state as part of the 'Safe Kerala' project, addressed the press here and said 20,42,542 violations were detected by the cameras from June 5 to July 3.

"Among the violations, 57,032 were by passengers in cars not wearing seat belts. 73,887 were riding without helmets and 30,123 were cases of pillion riders without helmets," he said.

He said Keltron, which verifies the detections, uploaded 1,77,694 cases on the integrated transport monitoring system and the Motor Vehicles Department has issued challans in 1,04,063 violations.

He cited 2022 June data and June 2023 data to show how road accident-related deaths came down due to AI-camera-based traffic management. “In June 2022, 344 died and 4,172 were injured in road accidents. However, in June 2023, only 140 died and 1,278 were injured in road accidents,” he said. 

The minister noted that district-level monitoring committees will be constituted to ensure that no one has been issued with challan for act they have not done. Apart from this, an application for online compliant redressal for raising such issues will be live from August 5. 

In April this year, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the 'Safe Kerala' project, which included installation of the AI cameras, envisaged to reduce road accidents and traffic violations in the state.