Bengaluru: Two separate incidents of height barriers breaking within 24 hours of each other have raised some concerns about road safety in the city.
A video that was posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday night went viral. Pradeep A J posted a snippet of dash-cam footage that was captured just before the Palace Road underpass in Upparpete traffic police station limits.
The video showed a bulker truck in front of Pradeep’s car crashing into and breaking the overhead height barrier before going down the underpassat 10.28 pm on Saturday. The metal barrier narrowly missed hitting a motorcyclist and Pradeep himself. Upparpete Traffic Police removed the broken barrier and registered a case against the truck driver under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Motor Vehicles Act.
A similar incident occurred near Panathur railway bridge around11 am on Sunday. The driver of an Eicher lorry went through a low-height barrier, breaking it in half. Although nobody was injured, traffic moved slowly until the traffic police could remove the broken barrier.
(Published 29 October 2023, 22:00 IST)