PWD Minister seeks funds from Centre to construct flyover at Expressway-Mysuru Ring Road Junction Bengaluru/Mandya: In response to a series of accidents that have occurred on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway taking away many precious lives, a Technical Committee will be formed to conduct a comprehensive study and provide recommendations for necessary improvements. The decision to form…
Hit-and-run accident compensation: District-level Committees to disburse money to kin
June 27, 2023Road Safety Authority takes cognisance of hit-and-run accidents on Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway Mysore/Mysuru: The State Government has consented to form District-level Committees for the disbursement of compensation to hit-and-run victims. The Committee will take steps to provide compensation to the victims of hit-and-run accidents under the jurisdiction of the Karnataka Transport Department. The Commissioner of Karnataka…
Woman killed, son and granddaughter injured as scooter hits Canter vehicle on Expressway
June 22, 2023Maddur: A woman was killed on the spot while her son and granddaughter sustained serious injuries after the scooter on which they were travelling hit a Canter vehicle near K. Kodihalli in Maddur on Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway yesterday. While the deceased has been identified as Varalakshmi (60), the injured are her son 40-year-old Sudhakar and granddaughter…
Surge in fatal accidents on Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway
June 21, 20233 killed as car rams into SUV after hitting road divider Mandya: A car hit the road divider on Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway and rammed into a SUV, killing a couple and the driver on the spot and leaving one severely injured near Gejjalagere in Maddur taluk of Mandya district yesterday. The deceased have been identified as…
RBI note press staffer dies in car mishap on Expressway
June 17, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Adding to the increasing cases of fatal accidents on Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway, a man died while his wife and two kids were injured when their car hit the road side metal crash barrier before falling over the service road, near Jaipura gate in Ramanagara, on Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway on Friday. Jagadish (42), an employee of Bharatiya…
Pay 22 percent more to travel on Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway
June 13, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: The toll charges for a section of the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway have been quietly increased by the National Highways Authority of India (NHA), with rates going up by as much as 22 percent. The toll has been increased for all types of vehicles and comes at a time when a new Government is in place….
Expressway safety: Install CCTV cameras, signage boards
June 13, 2023Mandya DC asks NHAI to complete pending works on service roads, conduct speed, safety tests Mandya: Mandya Deputy Commissioner Dr. H.N. Gopalakrishna has asked the officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to take immediate steps to complete the pending construction works in the jurisdictional Mandya District to ensure smooth transportation system on…
Car hits road divider on Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway
June 12, 2023One killed, three injured Ramanagar: One person was killed while three others sustained serious injuries when the car in which they were travelling hit the road divider in front of Chamundeshwari Hospital, near Koluru Gate in Channapatna taluk on Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway yesterday. The deceased has been identified as Manjesh (28), the driver of the car…
Expressway Deaths: RTO problem, not the Road
June 10, 2023Last year, Zoomcar, India’s biggest self-drive rental car company, surveyed 22 cities using its proprietary drive scoring system and declared Mysuru had the worst drivers in the country! Based on yesterday’s SOM report, the survey’s assessment seems right. The report stated that in just five months of the Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway opening, there have been 570…
55 killed in 5 months in accidents on Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway
June 9, 2023Mandya: The newly constructed Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway is proving to be deadly with 55 people losing their lives in accidents on the Expressway in the past five-months. The accidents and deaths are mainly attributed to over-speeding and negligence on the part of vehicle drivers. 55 km of the 118 km Expressway comes under Mandya district and…
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