Cement mixer truck strikes two automobiles on EEH, leaving one dead and two wounded

On Sunday morning near Everard Nagar in Chunabhatti, a speeding cement mixer truck collided with two cars, killing one motorcyclist and injuring two others.

The incident took place when the cement mixer truck was travelling from Sion to Chembur, according to the police.

The truck struck a motorcyclist who was standing nearby, Abdul Salam Rauf Shaikh, 30, before hitting another parked car and wounding two people, Suraj Shigvan, 23, and Andul Wahid Siddhique, 30.

They were all carried to Sion Hospital, where Shaikh was pronounced dead. Siddhique had a fractured femur and pelvic diastasis, while Shigvan fractured his fibula.

Both patients are stable, according to a resident physician at Sion Hospital.

The Chunabhatti police have registered a case against the mixer truck driver Riyan Mohammad Ali, 29, under the charges of 279 (Rash driving), 304 (a) (causing death by negligence), 338 (Causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others), 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the Indian penal code (IPC) along with 184 (driving dangerously), 134 (a) (b) of the Motor Vehicle Act.

Ali has been taken into custody and will be arrested in the case, according to Hemraj Rajput, deputy commissioner of police (zone 6).

The section of road where the disaster happened, according to Kaptan Malik, a former Kurla corporator, was recently put down using mastic asphalt, which caused numerous motorcyclists to slide on the slick surface.

According to Malik, the tragedy may have been avoided if the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had been notified of the car slides and overturns that were disrupting traffic in L ward on July 3. According to Malik, the BMC has established a new highway cell, under which road construction on the EEH has begun.

About 12 motorcycles have been sliding everyday on the mastic asphalt road for the last 8–10 days. One motorcyclist died away. I wrote to L Ward, but I was informed that the BMC’s roads department now has a new highway cell. My concern was not taken seriously by them. Otherwise, we might have prevented this accident,” Malik added.

“The mastication of the said asphalting is causing two to three vehicle slips and overturns every day, causing damage to the vehicles and causing a lot of traffic disruption,” Malik had written in a letter dated July 3. In order to prevent accidents, responsible authorities should check the masticated asphalt at these locations and spread gravel on it or scrape the mastic.

Malik also said that there will be a significant protest on the EEH if the mastic asphalting on the road is not removed in the next 24 hours.

When a senior municipal official was called, he said that the chief engineer for roads would be aware of the road since no one had told him about the slick section of mastic asphalt. He said, “We will have it examined.

According to P Velrasu, extra municipal commissioner for projects, the accident was unrelated to the mastic surface. According to the FIR, the accident happened at a period when large trucks were not allowed to enter, and it was the driver’s fault.