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Maharashtra: NHAI officials change tune in 24 hours
Updated On: 13 May, 2023 07:42 AM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma
First reluctant to repair damaged attenuator citing ‘high cost’, officials in-charge of Mum-Ahd highway removes it a day after mid-day questions delay
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A driver transporting a container could not notice the damaged speed attenuator near the Vaitarna river bridge in the pre-dawn hours of Friday and crashed right into it. Pics/Hanif Patel
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. 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.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) officials had installed crash attenuator or crash cushion at four spots on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway. The one on the Surya river bridge, where Mistry died in September, was damaged in the wee hours of Thursday. “It got damaged after a mini tempo rammed into it around 2.15 am on Thursday,” said a source. However, no injuries were reported in the accident. A team of highway safety police barricaded the damaged impact attenuator using a warning tape.
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