MLA representing Melkote Assembly constituency Darshan Puttannaiah visited the accident spot on Pandavapura-Nagamangala road in Mandya district, where a car plunged into the canal on Tuesday evening (November 7), and called for urgent road safety measures.
Mr. Puttannaiah summoned the officials of the Public Works Department (PWD) and pointed to them the “unscientific curve” near the bridge from where the car had plunged, drowning all its five occupants in the Visvesvaraya canal, and asked for the construction of road humps to ensure that the approaching vehicles slow down at the spot.
He also instructed them to take necessary steps to construct retaining walls and crash barriers not only at the bridge, where the mishap took place on Tuesday evening, but at places on the road along Visvesvaraya canal to prevent such accidents in future.
