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Traffic connected the Mumbai-bound carriageway of Mumbai-Pune Expressway was restored aboriginal connected Thursday (February 5, 2026), 33 hours aft a state tanker overturned successful the hilly Khandala Ghat section, officials said.
The tanker, which carried the highly flammable propylene gas, was removed from the mishap tract adjacent the Adoshi passageway successful the ghat section, allowing the resumption of postulation connected the Mumbai-bound carriageway astatine 1.46 a.m., an authoritative from the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) said.
The Mumbai-Pune Expressway is India's archetypal six-lane concrete, access-controlled tolled expressway. It spans a region of 94.5 km connecting Mumbai, Raigad and Navi Mumbai with Pune.
The tanker overturned connected the Mumbai-bound carriageway astir 5 p.m. connected Tuesday (February 3, 2026), triggering a monolithic postulation congestion that near thousands of vehicles stranded for hours connected the engaged expressway.
Lines of stationary vehicles stretched for arsenic acold arsenic 20 km astatine the highest of congestion. Passengers, including women and children, stay stranded successful their vehicles for respective hours without food, water, oregon toilet facilities.
The propylene state was safely transferred from the overturned tanker to different tankers precocious Wednesday (February 4, 2026) nighttime and the accident-hit conveyance was removed with the assistance of heavy-duty cranes, the MSRDC authoritative said.
"Traffic connected the Mumbai-Pune Expressway resumed astatine 1.46 a.m. aft the damaged state tanker was shifted from the mishap site," helium said.
Vehicular question successful the ghat conception normalised gradually aft the clearance cognition was completed, though congestion persisted for immoderate clip arsenic respective dense vehicles were stuck connected the stretch.
"With the tanker removed and the roadworthy cleared, postulation connected the Mumbai-Pune Expressway normalised wrong the adjacent fewer hours," a constabulary authoritative said.
However, the question slowed concisely successful the ghat conception connected Thursday (February 6, 2026) greeting owed to the breakdown of a fewer dense vehicles adjacent the Amrutanjan Bridge agelong astir 7.30 a.m., helium said.
The tanker mishap connected Tuesday (February 3, 2026) had led to the implicit closure of the Mumbai-bound carriageway, portion postulation was diverted and regulated successful blocks from the Pune-bound lane. Massive postulation snarls and nationalist outrage had prompted the MSRDC to suspend toll postulation connected the expressway.
Teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), road constabulary and MSRDC were deployed astatine the tract to negociate the hazardous concern and transportation retired the state transportation and tanker removal safely.
The prolonged disruption besides affected nationalist transport, with respective Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) buses stranded connected the expressway and a ample fig of regular services cancelled.
The incidental besides disrupted the proviso of indispensable items specified arsenic beverage and vegetables, arsenic respective goods vehicles remained stuck for hours.
