Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Jul 19: Vehicular traffic on the national highway 48 between the city and the capital city Bangalore was held up for about 16 hours, after three trucks got entangled with one another after an accident involving them occurred, at about 10 pm on Thursday July 17.

An ore-laden truck moving towards the city collided with another truck coming from the opposite direction at Doddatappale, about 12 kilometres from Sakleshpur. Another truck which was trailing the first truck, too hit the stranded truck from behind.  The line of vehicles on both sides of the accident was so long and dense that police jeeps could not venture near the accident spot.

Even after the policemen reached the place with great difficulty, there was no way the spot could be cleared, as the three trucks had got entangled with one another so badly due to the impact of the accident, that cranes had to be indented to separate them. The stranded vehicles formed about 20 kilometres long queue on the highway.

Passengers were stranded on the ghat for whole of the night and suffered a lot because of lack of toilet facilities, food, water etc.