A 30-km stretch of a highway passing through Maharashtra's Aurangabad will be completed by mid-August and will help prevent accidents on the existing road that goes through the city, an official said on Friday.

The Greenfield stretch of NH-52, Dhule-Solapur Highway, will act as a bypass and reduce 80 per cent of the traffic coming into Aurangabad city, the official from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) said.