Car topples, hits divider after tyre burst on Bengaluru-Mysuru highway in Mandya; no casualties
Mandya: Securing their seat belts proved to be a lifeline to the passengers, including the driver, in a car, who were saved although the vehicle toppled, hit the divider and was badly damaged after one of its tyre burst near Maddur in Mandya district while traveling on the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway on Saturday.
The left front tyre of the car burst when descending the flyover near Maddur, resulting in the car overturning and ramming into the divider. While the body of the car was badly damaged due to the intensity of the collision, parts of the vehicle also fell off it, on the highway.
The other users of the highway as well as the locals, who saw this, immediately got into action, to help the driver and the passengers come out of the damaged car.
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Maddur Traffic Police Sub-inspector GE Mahesh and other policemen visited the accident spot for an inspection. They also got the road cleared of the car debris, for traffic movement to return to normalcy. A case has been registered at the Maddur Traffic Police Station and the officers are investigating.
Sub-inspector Mahesh pointed out that the accident on Saturday did not end up being fatal or injurious as the passengers had worn their seat belts. He urged the road users to unfailingly follow traffic rules while driving on highways and take precautionary measures like wearing seat belts.
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Maharashtra Cong chief Nana Patole scrapes through in Sakoli, wins by 208 votes
Mumbai, Nov 23: Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole survived a scare from his nearest BJP rival in the Sakoli assembly constituency but managed to win the tight contest by a narrow margin of 208 votes.
Patole, the incumbent Congress MLA from Sakoli, polled 96,795 votes, while his challenger from BJP, Avinash Brahmankar, came tantalisingly close to bagging 96,587 votes.
Independent nominee Somadatta Karanjekar was a distant third, bagging 18,309 votes.
While Patole managed to save the face with the thin margin, the Congress unit led by him and the Maha Vikas Aghadi were routed by the BJP-led Mahayuti in the one-sided contest.
