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Metal sheet falls from Bengaluru Metro site, car narrowly misses
Dashcam footage captured the moment a one-metre-long metal casting sheet fell from an under-construction Metro viaduct in Bengaluru onto the Outer Ring Road on Friday evening. Commuter Nidhi Kalani recorded the sheet…
The Story in Brief
Dashcam footage captured the moment a one-metre-long metal casting sheet fell from an under-construction Metro viaduct in Bengaluru onto the Outer Ring Road on Friday evening. Commuter Nidhi Kalani recorded the sheet landing between a BMTC AC e-bus and her car at 9.48pm near Kadubeesanahalli. "I slammed the brakes really hard," she told Times of India. BMRCL confirmed no one was injured and has started an internal investigation into the incident. The Blue Line segment where the sheet fell is part of the city's ongoing Metro expansion project.
The Indian Opinion
Bengaluru's infrastructure projects keep producing near-misses that get brushed aside as bad luck. This is the same BMRCL that had a pier collapse in 2023 and concrete chunks falling on traffic last year. No one was hurt this time, but that is luck, not safety. The internal investigation must name the contractor and the supervisor who signed off on that section. Without naming and penalising those responsible, Bengaluru will keep waiting for the day a falling object finds its victim.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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