Two days after Chevella road accident, road repair works yet to begin

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Not overmuch has changed astatine the spot astatine Mirjaguda adjacent Chevella connected Hyderabad outskirts. The improperly, inadequately filed pothole remains there. Top constabulary officials said the gravel-laden lorry operator rammed into an oncoming TGRTC autobus to debar this pothole connected Monday morning.  

Drivers of some the lorry and the autobus died on with 17 others, portion respective sustained injuries successful this gory roadworthy crash. Forty-eight hours aft the mishap thing has changed astatine the mishap spot. The pothole is not yet wholly filled. Apparently it was filled hurriedly with immoderate factual mixture, that excessively unevenly. There are scores of specified potholes connected this roadworthy without a median — barring immoderate stretches — from Chevella to Tandur. The tragic mishap has not yet moved the authorities to instrumentality up roadworthy repair work. “This roadworthy remained pathetic with potholes, uneven, without median for implicit past decade. The authorities are truthful thick-skinned that adjacent 19 deaths successful a azygous mishap are not capable to interaction them,” says Jangaiah of Chevella. 

People coming from Tandur-Parigi tin announcement bumps a fewer metres earlier the mishap spot. The roadworthy is uneven earlier the mishap spot, with sides of the tar roadworthy somewhat tilted. The pothole, believed to beryllium 1 of the main factors for the accident, is inactive posing dangers to the commuters connected this road. 

All that has changed is conveyance drivers coming from some sides slowing down arsenic they travel person to the mishap spot and speaking with others connected however horrific the mishap was. The Chevella police, who registered a lawsuit nether sections 106 (1) and 125 (a) of BNS, began their investigation. 

The lawsuit successful each likelihood would extremity up arsenic ‘action abated’ since the operator of the lorry accused of ploughing into the autobus is already dead. The issues relating to the complicity oregon negligence of the lorry proprietor with respect to loading the lorry with gravel beyond its permitted capableness are yet to beryllium ascertained. 

The investigators are verifying the Registration Certificate of the lorry to cognize its Registered Laden Weight (RLW) and unladen value to measure if it was carrying overload of gravel. The rules mandate that lorry operator oregon proprietor should guarantee the worldly being transported is covered by tarpaulin oregon immoderate different means truthful that it would not spill onto the roadworthy during transportation. 

Published - November 05, 2025 08:36 p.m. IST

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