The incident occurred round 10 pm on December 29.
New Delhi:
Panic ensued alongside the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Freeway after over 50 autos had been punctured handed over an iron board that had fallen on the highway.
The incident occurred round 10 pm on December 29 between the Malegaon and Vanoja toll plaza in Washim district, impacting four-wheelers and cargo vans. This resulted in an extended site visitors jam on the freeway. Additional, commuters had been stranded on the freeway in a single day as no help arrived for a very long time. It’s being investigated if the board fell by accident or was thrown deliberately.
This comes at a time the protection on the high-speed hall is underneath query. In June, at the least six individuals had been killed and 4 injured in a collision between two vehicles on the Samruddhi Mahamarg close to the Kadwanchi village on Samruddhi Freeway in Jalna district.
The Samruddhi Mahamarg is {a partially} useful six-lane and 701-km-long access-controlled expressway in Maharashtra. It is among the nation’s longest greenfield highway initiatives connecting Mumbai and the state’s third-largest metropolis Nagpur. It was constructed at a price of Rs 55,000 crore.