A pickup truck carrying electrical goods from Bengaluru to Mysuru overturned on the expressway near Mandya on Friday (July 28) morning. As The Hindu was conducting a reality check on the expressway in the light of the increasing number of accidents, and ahead of the two-wheeler and three-wheeler ban from August 1, the truck driver Manjunath said he was just lucky to be safe, and the stretch had become dangerous. One of the vehicle’s tyres burst causing the accident.
This is not an isolated case. Since its inception, over 100 deaths have been reported, and over 150 people severely injured out of the total number of 308 accidents reported since March 12 this year. Several dashcam videos of accidents and vehicles swerving abruptly on the expressway have gone viral on social media.
