Tempo loaded with fruits overturns on Surat's Udhna-Navsari road due to civic apathy

According to a Sandesh report, a serious accident took place on the Udhna-Navsari main road due to the unforgivable negligence of the Surat Municipal Corporation's engineering department and administration. Here, a tempo laden with expensive fruits like apples, sweet limes, and pomegranates overturned after its tyre collided with a sharp iron peg left abandoned on the road.

In this incident, a total of three people, including the tempo driver and two other labourers sitting inside, sustained minor and serious injuries. The injured were immediately rushed to a nearby clinic for treatment. Due to the overturning of the tempo, crates of expensive fruits worth thousands of rupees were scattered across the road, forcing the trader to bear heavy financial losses.

According to locals and eyewitnesses present at the spot, iron barricades were removed from the BRTS route by the SMC, but these sharp iron pegs were left behind on the road surface without being cut or levelled. The tempo's tyre got caught in this dangerously protruding iron peg, causing the vehicle to lose control and overturn right in the middle of the road.

Following the accident, long queues of vehicles formed on the Udhna-Navsari road and a traffic jam situation prevailed for hours. Local traders and motorists directly alleged that these sharp iron rods left on the road surface after uprooting BRTS barricades are completely invisible in the dark of night, due to which two-wheeler riders frequently slip and vehicle tyres burst even earlier.

Fortunately, at the time the tempo was overturning, no biker or pedestrian was passing nearby, which averted a major fatal incident in Surat. Following this incident, anger has flared up among citizens, and they have made a strong demand to the Municipal Commissioner and Udhna zone officials that all iron rods on the road be cut immediately using gas cutters and the road be made smooth.

Local people have expressed fear that if these lethal obstacles are not removed on an immediate basis, some innocent person may have to lose their life in the future.