Last year, the NHAI installed four crash cushions, for the first time ever, following the death industrialist Cyrus Mistry on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway. But, the recent damage to three devices revealed its short-sightedness in dealing with repairs (With inputs from Diwakar Sharma)
Updated On: 2023-05-13 03:32 PM IST
Compiled by : ronak mastakar
Officials, who were reluctant to even touch these owing to “high cost”, hurriedly removed the one on the Surya river bridge on Friday, a day after mid-day questioned them about the threat to transporters (Pic/Hanif Patel)
Officials, who were reluctant to even touch these owing to “high cost”, hurriedly removed the one on the Surya river bridge on Friday, a day after mid-day questioned them about the threat to transporters (Pic/Hanif Patel)
The one on the Surya river bridge, where Mistry died in September, was damaged in the wee hours of Thursday after a mini tempo rammed into it. However, no injuries were reported in the accident. A team of highway safety police barricaded the damaged impact attenuator using a warning tape (Pic/iStock)
At the spot, mid-day spoke to some of the transporters and motorists, who shared concerns about the threat the damaged attenuator now poses to them, especially at night (Pic/iStock)
After mid-day highlighted the faulty road designs and the absence of safety or warning signs ahead of Surya river on the highway, where the three lanes merge into two, taking motorists on the high-speed stretch by surprise, the NHAI officials installed the first speed attenuator at the black spot. It was installed three months after the death of Mistry, who was returning from Gujarat (Pic/iStock)
