The grisly accident on the Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway which killed 25 passengers sparked a furore in the state with veteran leader Sharad Pawar demanding an expert panel's survey to ascertain the causes behind the large number of fatal crashes on .
Teams of highway police personnel are stationed at the entry-exit points on the two prestigious expressways and 10 interceptor vehicles are stationed at strategic locations., Mumbai News, Times Now
Mumbai, May 4: The partly-completed Mumbai-Nagpur Super Expressway has emerged as a killer - reporting at least 195 big and small accidents that claimed 95 lives and left many more injured in less than 5 months.
Partly-completed Mumbai-Nagpur Super Expressway has emerged as a "killer" - reporting at least 195 big and small accidents that claimed 95 lives and left many more injured in less than 5 months. The VNIT report, prepared by the Traffic Engineering Department students, has claimed that after long hours of driving without break, drivers tend to develop "highway hypnosis" leading to such accidents. "Highway hypnosis" is a condition when a driver zones out while driving, unable to remember what occurred in that specific period, just keeping driving without absolute control over the steering, and paying no attention to anything happening around him/her., Mumbai News, Times Now