Mysore/Mysuru: A trailer of a tractor, carrying concrete beams, toppled near Mangalore Motor Works in city, disrupting traffic for some time yesterday. A few two-wheelers were damaged in the incident and motorists, autorickshaw passengers who were passing by had a miraculous escape from the falling concrete beams.
The trailer, attached to a tractor, was carrying heavy concrete beams from Metropole Hotel side and when the tractor reached Dewan’s Road, the concrete beams moved towards the left side in the trailer resulting in the trailer toppling and the heavy concrete beams falling on the road. The tractor driver fled from the spot soon after the incident.
Devaraja Traffic Police, who reached the spot, cleared the road and made way for smooth flow of traffic.
Not surprising at all. Traffic police is only busy collecting fines from hapless two and for wheelers. Someone overloaded three wheelers, rashly driven tractors with no number plates or even basic reflectors, overloaded overspending sand laden truckers all miraculously escape their attention. Traffic police had become revenue generation service for the government, no longer their primary duty is traffic control which is limited during VIP movements or accident prevention.