A speeding BMW car reportedly met with an accident inside the Coastal Road tunnel in Maharashtra’s Mumbai on late Tuesday night, resulting in traffic disruption at the stretch, officials said.
The traffic inside the tunnel slowed down due to the accident, however, no one was injured, news agency PTI quoted officials as saying.
The accident happened near Tardeo on the southbound arm of the road, according to officials.
A video of the incident surfaced on social media, showing a white BMW stranded inside the tunnel after meeting with an accident, with its bonnet seemingly damaged.
Some people are also seen standing around the vehicle while it is hindering the traffic movement.
HT.com could not independently verify the authenticity of the video.
Mumbai‘s traffic police informed commuters about the accident and the traffic hinderance through a post on X at 11.45 pm on Tuesday. “Traffic movement is slow at costal road (Tardeo) south bound due to BMW car accident,” the post read.
Just minutes later, at 11.59 pm, the police declared that the traffic was clear through a follow-up post.
The car was reportedly removed from the spot by the traffic police. A probe into the accident is underway, said officials.
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A 27-year-old supervisor of a milk business was killed in a road accident Tuesday early morning in Pune after a speeding Fiat Punto car allegedly rammed into his two-wheeler from behind near S M Ghule Chowk. The accident reportedly happened on the newly-opened cement-concrete road near Raheja Premier society in Pune’s NIBM Annexe-Mohammadwadi area, and has led to public anger and fresh calls for road safety measures on the corridor.
Last week, a Special Police Officer (SPO) was dragged on the bonnet of a speeding car for more than 70 metres after being held during Subhash Chowk in Gurugram during a late-night patrol, police said on Thursday, October 16.
(With inputs from PTI)