Second fatal accident on GST Road in less than 10 days
Local residents blocking traffic on busy GST Road on Tuesday morning at Irumbuliyur junction following an accident in which a two wheeler rider was ran over by a government bus. (Photo: DC)
Chennai: Following the second fatal accident in Irumbuliyur junction on GST Road in less than 10 days, local residents blocked the road for more than two hours on Tuesday morning. Their contention was that mishaps happen due to the absence of policemen at the junction.
On Tuesday morning, Vempuli, 48, a carpenter riding his bike to distribute his daughter’s marriage invitation, was crushed under a speeding government bus, which violated the traffic signal. He was crossing from west Irumbuliyur side to east, police said.
While Vempuli, a resident of Erikarai in Irumbuliyur, died on the spot after being hit by Thiruvannamalai bound bus, another biker was injured and hospitalised.
The incident sparked spontaneous protest by the local people who blocked the road and refused to allow the police to remove the body of the deceased saying that if the traffic policemen are posted in the junction the accident could have been prevented.
Ten days ago, a 9-year-old boy on a bike was fatally knocked down by a milk van at the same junction. The incident had triggered protest on that day too and people had asked for deployment of policeman in the junction.
At the time of the mishap on Tuesday there were no policemen at the junction, local residents alleged. “Policemen are never present at the junction. They are too busy ‘handling’ vegetable vendors who transport the produce in their motorised three-wheelers from the local market,” a local resident said.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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