Mumbai: The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), which is constructing the Mumbai-Nagpur expressway, has decided to give interceptor vehicles to the state transport department and the highway patrol police, as the expressway, in less than a month, has witnessed at least 40 accidents, leaving seven persons dead and over 35 injured. Phase 1 of the expressway—the 520 km from Nagpur to Shirdi—was inaugurated on December 11 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Speaking to Hindustan Times, Radheshyam Mopalwar, managing director of MSRDC, said, “We had meetings with the state transport commissioner and his men and have planned several measures. We will give them speed guns and ten interceptor vehicles. We will also give 15 interceptor vehicles to the highway police.” Mopalwar revealed that the problem was not so much that of heavy vehicles as passenger vehicles—the latter, he said, went even higher than the speed limit of 120 kmph.
