Hi Sir,
Myself, Kasi Viswanath working and settled in bangalore..
I want to register a complaint against all those who are involved in the contract, construction and approval of toll gate at doddaballapur (SH 9 toll booth), gunjur village.. This is situated around 40-50 kms from bangalore and between ghati subramanyam- viduraswatha temples.
Due to negligent construction, usage of low quality products and approval of such poor and low standard toll, we (myself, my wife, my mother and my 1.8 year old nephew) underwent a major panic and accident at around 7-9PM in the toll booth yesterday, June 2nd 2019, while we were waiting for the barricades to open after showing our return trip receipt (to and fro charges 50 rupees).
Within no time and while we were waiting for barricades to open, all this happened.. Due to heavy flow of wind and rain, the roof of the toll booth constructed with iron bars or rods (not sure of material) started to collapse and fall on our car, the barricades flew and hit the car with extreme force, the iron rods hit the rare glass damaging the window completely.. The display boards, lights, roof of toll, barricades etc., what not!!! Everything started to hit the car in all possible directions with great force, leaving us in shock and panic...
In our helpless and clueless situation and to save our lives, I drove the car away from toll gate before it collapses completely... There was no visibility due to heavy rain, collapse of all items of toll in all directions... I drove away with speed to make way, crossing all obstacles and I hit the median and speed braker and the car jumped in the air and I applied sudden brake to avoid further severe accident as there was electric pole... As soon as I realized what happened, we were right next to pole, on footpath, right in front of huge gutter and just 50m away from toll...
Luckily the car was strong enough, we were in seat belt and in conscious and God's grace, we escaped with no injuries... By then, the roof collapsed completely and was swept away... Immediately we came out of car and rushed to toll plaza (besides toll gate, admin office)...
Sir, how could the construction be so poor?? How could the management be so negligent?? Other toll gates were strong enough but this collapsed and we became victims for no fault from our side!! Toll that's supposed to be safe left us in huge shock. All those involved in this toll construction should be punished... If such irresponsible and negligent engineers, managers, suppliers etc., continue to work, they will kill the lives of humans..
Luckily we escaped, but we don't want any others to be in such situation.. We were returning from ghati and viduraswatham temple and those Gods saved us...
Our car is one week old... Insurance would probably be covered... But what about the mental pain and panic we underwent??? Could that be valued with money??? It's priceless... Why such our lives (or any human) be at risk and undergo all this just because of negligent, irresponsible people??? They need to be punished/sued to avoid further incidents...
Request you to check the footage (from 6.30 PM on July 2nd 2019... Incident happened around 7 as far as what we feel)... Media did cover the toll post the incident... I have also attached the pics and videos..
Request you to register a complaint & take necessary actions against the toll authority..
Please strongly implement fastag for tag owners only. Hope to see improvements after my complaint.
Thanks
Ashish Bhayana
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