Parmesh S Jain
As Many as 12 people injured and around 10 vehicles damaged in a serial accident occurred on National highway 4 in Nelamangala due to heavy fog and poor visibility in the early hours of Thursday.
Traffic movement on the NH 4 was disrupted for over two hours as hundreds of vehicles stranded on either side of the roads.
The Nelamangala traffic police struggled hard to restore normalcy and used cranes to pull out the damaged vehicle to clear the road.
Senior officer said,the incident occurred in the early hours when few vehicles including a KSRTC bus,a private bus and few goods vehicles heading towards the city from Tumakuru,collided with each other after the driver lost visibility due to heavy fog near T Begur near Nelamangala .
A truck carrying vegetable and onion loads broke down and the onions spilled on the road,leading to more chaos.
Driver of the private bus sustained fracture injuries on his legs and several other passengers traveling in two buses were also injured.
The injured have been taken to Nelamangala government hospital for treatment.The injured are said to be out of danger .
The traffic police barricaded the area and summoned cranes to pull out the damaged vehicles which were stranded due to serial accidents.
Meanwhile hundreds of vehicles passing on the road were stopped due to traffic jams .
The police later struggled hard to clear the traffic to allow the vehicles to pass through .
The Nelamangala traffic police have taken up a case and are probing the accident.
