Days after a video showing a luxury bus skidding momentarily before the driver regained control of the vehicle on the Mysuru-Bengaluru highway went viral on the social media, sparking concern among the people, Mysuru MP Pratap Simha visited the spot on Saturday and assured to take corrective steps and prevent mishaps on the highway, whose stretches in Ramanagaram had witnessed flooding in the recent rains.
The video that had been shot from the side of a goods truck carrying carrots that had fallen by the wayside, apparently after a mishap, had raised questions about the safety of the highway.
Mr. Simha, who visited the spot at a bow-string girder built over a railway line at the start of the Bidadi bypass on the highway on Saturday along with the site engineer, said the reason for the vehicles skidding while passing through the bow-string girder was mastic asphalting, which was a specification of the Railways.
