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May 3rd, 2007
Navi Mumbai: Accidents continue to occur regularly along the 9-km-long Palm Beach Road that connects Belapur and Vashi in Navi Mumbai.
On Wednesday, a truck fell into a trench at the Nerul end of Palm Beach Road, making for quite an unusual sight. The trench had been dug to fix a new water pipeline. It is still not clear how the truck (MH06-C-6200) landed almost vertically in the ditch.
Sanpada end of the road, leaving the driver injured. Zonal deputy commissioner of police Amar Jadhav told that most accidents in this stretch occur due to over-speeding. “The traffic police has started using speed guns to fine motorists who cross the 60 kmph limit on Palm Beach Road but I find that vehicles are still zooming at over 80 kmph on this six-lane road,” he said.
In 2005, there were over 45 accidents on the road and 10 fatalities, and the next year there were over 50 accidents and 11 deaths. This year, there have been seven road deaths.
Source : TOI (epaper)
April 27th, 2007
Mumbai: The spate of accidents on the city’s roads continues. A Honda City car rammed into a motorcycle on the Western Express Highway on Thursday morning, killing the pillion rider. The biker was hurt.
The impact of the collision was so severe that it sent the bike hurtling across the road. Basavraj Manekar (30), a chauffeur who was at the car’s wheel, has been booked for rash driving and causing death due to negligence.
According to the police, the incident occurred around 11.50 am below the Andheri flyover bridge. Mohammad Sadiq Hussain (25) and Zakir Hussain Jameel Ansari (24) were on the bike, driving under the bridge. Manekar was on the bridge, headed in the direction of Vile Parle.
“The car, which had gathered speed on the descent, reached the end of the flyover around the same time as the bike. Manekar could not control the vehicle and rammed the bike from behind,” said a police officer. The bike careened for several metres before ending up beneath a Best bus. Police officers said Manekar came forward to help the victims. The duo were taken to Cooper hospital where Ansari was declared dead before admission.
In a separate incident, on Wednesday, a Tata Sumo ferrying a group of call centre workers home, toppled over after hitting a traffic island on the Western Express highway at Goregaon. The driver and four employees were injured.
Source: TOI(Delhi epaper)
April 26th, 2007
Mumbai: Officials from the Regional Transport Authority have inspected the Palio and Swift cars that were smashed in a six-vehicle collision at Andheri on Tuesday. Two teenagers—Tarosh Diwanji, 18, and Abhishek Sethi, 19—perished in the accident. Diwanji was in the backseat of the Swift and Sethi was driving the Palio.
The cars are in the possession of the Versova police. Officials took photographs and made notes on the damage to the vehicles. These notes will be incorporated by the police in the chargesheet.
Meanwhile, some of Sethi’s family members told TOI that they suspect that some of the group in the Swift had consumed liquor. While Gaurav Awlani, 21, was driving the Swift, his friend Manish Chaturvedi, 28, was also in the car. “We reached Cooper Hospital within 20 minutes of the accident.
The boys from the Swift had been brought there for medical tests and they were smelling of liquor,’’ said Sethi’s cousin, Shruti, who is a mental health professional.
The police, meanwhile, maintained that blood samples of Awlani and Leo Caselino, 51, who was driving the tempo that collided with the Swift, had been sent for a detailed analysis. The reports are pending, they said.
Police said the Swift car is estimated to have been moving at 80 to 90 kmph. “The number plates of the Swift came off. Its rear end was shattered and sides deeply dented. The car was at tremendous speed despite the spot being an open junction where vehicles are constantly moving,’’ said an official.
The Swift banged the tempo at Four Bungalows junction, opposite the Kamdhenu shopping complex. The tempo had been coming down a road perpendicular to J P Road, which the Swift was on. The
Swift then hit the Palio, which was travelling in the same direction on J P Road. The Swift then hit a parked auto, which crashed into a parked milk van. Meanwhile, Caselino’s tempo spun and hit an Indigo travelling behind it.
Awlani and Caselino were booked for rash driving, causing hurt by a negligent act, causing grievous hurt by a negligent act and causing death due to negligence. They were let off on a cash bail of Rs 5,000 each by the metropolitan magistrate at Andheri on Tuesday itself.
Senior inspector Amarjeet Singh had told TOI that basic traffic rules, like stopping or going slow at signals, had not been llowed by the drivers.
Source: TOI(Mumabi epaper)
April 25th, 2007
Yet Another Tragedy Caused By Reckless Youngsters
Mumbai: A deadly cocktail of reckless driving late at night and non-adherence to the seat-belt rule resulted in two teenagers dying and three persons being injured in a six-vehicle smash-up at Four Bungalows, Andheri, at 3.45 am on Tuesday.
The deceased, Abhishek Sethi, 19, and Tarosh Diwanji, 18, were students. Police said the survivors of the mishap had worn their seat-belts. However, Gaurav Alwani, 21, the driver of the Maruti Swift that crashed into the most number of vehicles, was also saved by the airbag that ballooned out during the collision.
Police said that Alwani and Sethi, who was driving a Fiat Palio, were speeding down J P Road in the same direction at 3.45 am. Police estimated they were travelling at more than 90 kmph. The Swift, which was ahead, rammed into a tempo that came across it at 90 degrees at Four Bungalows junction. The Swift then hit Sethi’s Palio while the tempo hit an Indigo. The speed of the Swift continued to send it careening into a parked auto which was lifted six feet into the air with the auto driver still inside. The auto then came crashing down onto a milk van parked nearby.
While Sethi died on the spot, Alwani escaped injury due to the airbag. Alwani and the tempo driver Leo Caselino, 51, were arrested for rash driving and causing death due to negligence. They were later released on bail.
Drivers didn’t seem drunk, just reckless: Cops
Diwanji, the youngest of the lot, was in the backseat of the Swift. His body was crushed beyond recognition, while the Palio and the Swift were completely smashed.
Amongst those injured are Sethi’s friend, Rahul Vidhane, 20, a budding pilot who was in the Palio’s front passenger seat and Manish Chaturvedi, 28, who was in the front passenger seat of the Swift and has been admitted to the ICCU of a Vile Parle hospital. Auto driver Prabhat Singh was also injured.
The accident occurred in front of the Kamdhenu shopping centre. Alwani and
Caselino were taken to Cooper Hospital, where their blood samples were taken. “Prima facie, we don’t think they were inebriated, but detailed medical reports are awaited,’’ said senior inspector V Sonawane.
The police believe that Alwani and Sethi may have been racing to stay ahead.
“The Palio was making an attempt to overtake the Swift from the wrong side around the time of the collision,’’ an officer said.
Auto driver Singh, 22 counted himself lucky to have survived. “I had my hands on the steering and was waiting for some passenger to hail my auto when I heard a loud crash. Within seconds, a car hit my auto from behind and sent me six feet into the air. I couldn’t imagine what had happened,’’ he told TOI. “My auto then hit an empty milk van parked nearby before crashing to the ground. I slipped out from the driver’s seat and the auto fell on me. Bystanders came forward and helped me out. The road was a mess of broken glass, mangled vehicles and bodies.’’
The Indigo driver, Uday Jariwala, did not sustain much injuries. His vehicle suffered dents, police said.
Senior inspector (traffic) Amarjeet Singh, who is looking into the case, said there did not seem to be engineering faults in any of the vehicles. “The accident has been caused because of rash driving. No rules, like stopping or going slow at the signals, were followed.’’ Another officer said that loud music was heard from the Swift.
SOurce: TOI(Mumbai epaper)
April 24th, 2007
THE MENACING dumpers moving about on city roads have turned killers. Since February, three people have been killed and two injured in accidents caused by dumpers.
With a boom in the construction sector and several projects undertaken in the city, the ubiquitous dumpers have added to road casualties.
Colaba corporator Vinod Shekhar said erring drivers should be severely punished. “Besides, a provision to punish contractor is also needed.” He said if strict laws were implemented, contractors would make an effort to engage diligent workers.
“There is a specific criteria to appoint drivers of BMC dumpers,” Chief Engineer, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), solid waste management, R.R. Markandaye said.
Elaborating, he said a driver should have a valid driver’s licence for heavy vehicles and have the ability to control the vehicle on a road. “But, accidents can occur because of the driver’s fault or the victim’s fault.” Apart from serious offences like hit-and-run cases, there are also complaints on noisy dumpers working even after the slotted time — es pecially in residential areas.
“There is no logbook maintaining the number of dumpers plying in the city,” said a senior official from the Regional Transport Office (RTO) on condition of anonymity.
He added that private contractors hire machinery required for construction activity. “However, there is no accountability or record with local police station or government authority. Contractors and machine operators usually end up creating problems at the site,” he said.
November 23, 2006 Mohammad Zalil (20), a worker at the scrap market, was crushed to death by a speeding heavy-load dumper. The vehicle entered the Service Road, near Dahisar checknaka, and crashed into seven load carriers. Zalil was sleeping on the pavement. STATUS: Driver Ahmed khan (36) was arrested after three weeks.
February 19, 2007 A 22-year-old call centre employee, Lavina Fernandes, was crushed to death after a speeding dumper ran over her on the Andheri-Kurla Road. Another person, Rakesh Brijlal, was also severely injured in the incident. STATUS: The driver is absconding. Brijlal was discharged after a month in the hospital.
February 27, 2007 Shadik Sheikh (12) was playing at a construction site in D.N. Nagar, Andheri, when a dumper ran over him, killing on the spot. STATUS: Driver Shivalingam Vadiyar (25) was arrested.
March 11, 2007 Two beat marshals were injured when a dumper hit their motorcycle while patrolling near the dumping ground in Shivaji Nagar. STATUS: Driver Fazlu Rehman (35) was arrested.
Source : HT (epaper)
April 22, 2007 A 26-year-old motorcyclist was crushed to death by a speeding dumper on the Sion-Dharavi flyover. At around 11.45 pm, dumper driver Hanumant Koli (40), a resident of Andheri (West), lost control over the vehicle and ran over the motorcyclist, who was coming from the opposite direction. STATUS: The Sion police arrested Koli on charges of rash and negligent driving. Koli tried to escape what was caught.
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