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Mumbai: Everything wrong with our roads in five frames
Updated On: 13 July, 2023 07:01 AM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma
Social media has of late been awash with CCTV footage of the perils of wrong-side driving and lack of traffic sense resulting in multiple deaths; one such incident in Vasai on Monday shines light on a larger malaise, including drunk-driving
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A car approaching the intersection at illegal speed doesn’t slow down, hits the scooter and flings the duo in the air
Poor road design, potholes, illegally parked vehicles, an unmanned intersection and road rage speak volumes about Monday’s accident in Vasai. A helmetless two-wheeler rider headed towards an unmanned intersection while negotiating a pothole-riddled road and tried to cross where an illegally parked tempo obstructed his view on the side, from where a speeding car driven by an inebriated man rammed into him and his pillion rider.
After over two days of rigorous investigation, the detection team of Waliv police station traced the white Innova Crysta and arrested its drunk driver Arjun Shrivastava, who runs a mobile shop accessories in Nalasopara. Sources in the police department told mid-day that the three occupants in the car were returning home after boozing overnight at a hotel on NH-48 before the driver rammed it into the scooter of the cousins, who were headed to Tungareshwar temple on the first Monday of the ongoing holy month of Shravan.
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