{"id":519823,"date":"2022-09-06T09:21:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T03:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=519823"},"modified":"2022-09-06T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T04:50:28","slug":"worlds-deadliest-roads-in-focus-after-cyrus-mistrys-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/worlds-deadliest-roads-in-focus-after-cyrus-mistrys-fatal-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s deadliest roads in focus after Cyrus Mistry&#8217;s fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The car accident over the weekend that killed Cyrus Mistry &#8212; scion of one of India\u2019s best-known business families &#8212; has reignited concerns about the poor state of India\u2019s roads, identified by the World Bank as the world\u2019s deadliest.<\/p>\n<p>Mistry, who was 54, died on Sunday during a trip between Ahmedabad and Mumbai after the car he was in hit a divider on a bridge. Images circulating on social media showed skid-marks of a Mercedes veering off the road just next to a pothole. Airbags in the rear didn\u2019t inflate.<\/p>\n<p>While India has built the world\u2019s second-biggest road network spanning 5.89 million kilometers (3.7 million miles), its highways are often marred by shoddy construction and poor maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The car accident over the weekend that killed Cyrus Mistry &#8212; scion of one of India\u2019s best-known business families &#8212; has reignited concerns about the poor state of India\u2019s roads, identified by the World Bank as the world\u2019s deadliest. Mistry, who was 54, died on Sunday during a trip between Ahmedabad and Mumbai after the car he was in hit a divider on a bridge. Images circulating on social media showed skid-marks of a Mercedes veering off the road just next to a pothole. Airbags in the rear didn\u2019t inflate. While India has built the world\u2019s second-biggest road network spanning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}