Six injured in separate mishaps

Six injured in separate mishaps
HERALD NEWS BUREAU
PANJIM, MAY
Six persons were injured in three separate accidents at Tilamol-Quepem, Mayem and Merces on Thursday.
QUEPEM CORRESPONDENT ADDS: A truck driver was injured in a collision between two trucks at Tilamol-Quepem.
According to sources, the accident occurred at about 8.30 am involving a mining truck (GA-09 U-0103) and a coal-laden truck. The coal truck driver, who was injured in the accident, was rushed to Curchorem Health Centre.
The speeding mining truck, which was proceeding from Curchorem after off loading ore, collided against the coal-laden truck, which was proceeding towards Curchorem.
MAYEM CORRESPONDENT ADDS: Five persons from Khorlim-Mapusa were injured, one of them seriously, when a Maruti car in which they were traveling skidded and fell into a pit dug for constructing pillar of a new parallel Bicholim Bridge near Kadamba Bus Stand Bicholim.
According to Bicholim police, the accident occurred at about 5 am when Ashok Lalji Vishwakarma, Ramu Sutar, Mehboob, Altaf and Arvind Lalji Vishwakarma were proceeding towards Belgaum in their Maruti car (GA-03-C-1367).
When the car reached by pass road near Kadamba bus stand Bicholim, a truck suddenly came in the opposite direction, due to which car driver Ashok lost the control over the vehicle.
Since there was no railing on the river side, the car skidded and fell into the pit dug to construct pillar of a parallel bridge over Bicholim River, the work of which is in progress.
All the occupants of the car were rushed to Primary Health Centre Bicholim, from where Ramu Sutar was shifted to GMC Hospital. The other four injured passengers were discharged after treatment.
Meanwhile, residents of Bicholim have urged the government to install railings along the river side of the by pass road.
MERCES CORRESPONDENT ADDS: A driver had a lucky escape after the WagonR car he was driving went off the road and landed into the fields below, near Chimbel panchayat.
The driver was fortunate that the car after tumbling down landed on its tyres. Though eye witnesses could not give the exact picture of how the accident took place, locals blamed the erosion of the road embankment as the cause of the mishap.
Speaking to Herald, villager Lourdes Conception said the villagers have been highlighting the problem of the erosion taking place at the spot for quite a long time in the gram sabha meetings and have demanded that retaining walls be built to ensure that mishaps do not take place.
Lourdes further lamented that despite their demands the retaining walls have yet to be built and the erosion continues to pose threats to road users, particularly during the night when the visibility is very low.
Another local John Pereira said if immediate action is not taken to protect the embankment, there is every possibility of further erosion taking place during the monsoon, which will pose greater danger to road users.
When contacted, Chimbel Sarpanch Chandrakant Kunkolkar said that the panchayat has already adopted a resolution to build retaining walls on both sides of the stretch of this road and has forwarded the same to the PWD way back in the month of March.
“However, the panchayat has yet to receive a reply from the PWD in this regard,” he said and assured that he would request the PWD to at least take some temporary measures to arrest the erosion.