Hyderabad: Potholes make travelling difficult for people

Hyderabad: The pothole menace in the city is causing repeated accidents, with flooded roads often camouflaging a deadly pothole.

Accidents triggered by potholes have been reported in the past few weeks, where people were either badly injured or succumbed to their injuries.

In one case, one day after a biker broke his leg after falling into a pothole on the busy Erragadda ESI stretch, officials got the potholes covered, but left three other wide holes open. These were lying a few meters away from the spot, continuing to pose a danger to commuters.

After reports in Deccan Chronicle, the civic body swung into action and the pothole which caused the incident and the one beside it was filled with bitumen the following day.

However, it was later discovered that the road had three potholes, less than ten meters away, but these were not attended to. An auto driver said that after the accident, a group of workers from some government department came to the spot, filled the two big potholes and left in a hurry.

“They had filled the same potholes, nearly a month ago, but these have been damaged again. What is to be seen is whether this will continue till the monsoon ends,” he said. Others commented that a road roller was not used when the bitumen was laid.

“They were in such a hurry that they did not notice the other three potholes which were just a few meters away from the ones they filled. They are also a cause of concern as they connect the road from the bylanes to the main road,” a worker from a nearby shop said.

Meanwhile, GHMC officials confirmed that they are in the process of repairing all the potholes which will be complete very soon. “The potholes might not always cause fatal accidents but it may cripple a person as the impact of such an accident is primarily on the spinal cord followed by fractures,” said the Indian federation of road safety’s chief functionary, Vinod Kumar Kanumala.