Mishap leads to four-hour traffic jam on Mumbai-Pune expressway

The station duty officer at Khopoli police station said, “The accident took place around 6.40 am at kilometres mark 41.3. Fortunately, no one was injured in the accident. But it did lead to traffic jam on the Pune to Mumbai lane.”

Duty officer at Pune-Mumbai Expressway control room said, “The damaged vehicles, were removed within in 40 minutes and one of the three lanes on Pune-Mumbai side was opened for traffic. But it took next three hours to open remaining two lanes and bring the traffic to its normal flow.”

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Highway police said the traffic took a long time to come back to normal flow because the spot at which the accident took place did not have any diversion nearby. Thus, the accident spot became a bottleneck for the morning traffic.