Jamshedpur : In separate road mishaps on Tata-Kandra Road at Adityapur and NH-33 at Chandil in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district four persons were injured today.
All the four injured were admitted to the MGM Medical College and Hospital in Sakchi, where condition of a 32-year-old mishap victim Vivek Ekka is said to be serious. A resident of Birsanagar near Telco, Vivek sustained head injuries and was lying unconscious at the government hospital.
According to relatives, Vivek is a clerical staff of a government office at Ranchi and he was going to the capital by riding his bike this morning.
Assistant sub-inspector of police, Surendra Prasad of the Sakchi police station said that they had contacted the mishap victim for a statement but he was senseless.
In another mishap, three youths were riding a bike through the service-lane along the Tata-Kandra Road. Sudhir Parmanik, sustained multiple facture in the left leg.
The other two injured were identified as Raju Parmanik and Bijay Pradhan, all in their early twenties and residents of Gamharia. Both Raju and Bijay had also sustained injuries in the legs.
Officer-in-charge, Adityapur police station, Arvind Kumar confirmed about the mishap and said that the mishap took place as the bike-riders had to ride through the main carriage line because of incomplete service lane at the point of Ghorababa temple.
The Tata-Kandra four-lane has become a mishap-prone road where fatal road mishaps have become a regular affair.
According to data available, ever since the Tata-Kandra four-lane came into being one-and-half years ago, 186 people have died in the road accidents and more than 200 persons suffered grievous injury in separate road mishaps. Sources said that heavy vehicles coming out of industrial units of Adityapur are the worst offenders.
Instead of keeping left and then taking a U-turn after a kilometre or so, these trucks hurtle down the wrong side, facing oncoming traffic and risking the lives of hundreds on two or four-wheelers.
The newly inaugurated sprawling Tata-Kandra Road four-lane has virtually turned into into ‘death trap’ considering the number of causalities reported in one and half years.
Sources said that heavy vehicles coming out of industrial units of Adityapur are the worst offenders. Instead of keeping left and then taking a U-turn after a kilometre or so, these trucks hurtle down the wrong side, facing oncoming traffic and risking the lives of hundreds on two or four-wheelers.
Despite a one-way road, the Tata-Kandra four-lane has become a mishap-prone road where fatal road mishaps have become a regular affair.
“There are no traffic rules on the Tata-Kandra Road. Drivers have to be alert throughout the stretch and dodge vehicles coming from the wrong side,” said a senior official of Gamharia based company.