A day after a 14-year-old student was mowed down by a garbage truck on the busy Ballari Road, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) took up an intensive cleaning drive of all the active pedestrian underpasses in the city on Tuesday.
The accident occured when the student and a few others tried to cross the busy Ballari Road by jumping over the 4-ft high median. They wanted to avoid using the pedestrian underpass at the junction, where water was stagnating. There is also a skywalk, equipped with a lift, just yards away from the accident spot.
BBMP officials said that the home guards posted at the pedestrian underpass had erred in not warning the deceased student and others from crossing the busy road and asking them to either take the skywalk or walk further ahead on the service road and cross the road under the Hebbal flyover.
