Truck breaks down, creates traffic jam for 5 hours in NH-24
Traffic on the highway linking East and Central Delhi was held up for over five hours on Friday morning when a truck broke down on the busy Nizamuddin Bridge leading to the Ring Road.
The truck, loaded with rice, was headed to one of the mandis in Delhi. When its axle broke down, it collapsed, leading to a jam. Police rushed a traffic crane to move it off the road, but the hook of the machine also broke down, forcing the traffic to proceed inch by inch. The Traffic Police offered a lame excuse for the fiasco. “Our cranes are meant to pull smaller vehicles. This crane could not take the pressure of a fully loaded truck,” said Joint Commissioner, Traffic, Qamar
Ahmad.
The Traffic Police had to borrow a heavy-duty crane from the Delhi Metro to save the day. The truck was finally pulled of the carriageway by noon. However, the truck could not be entirely removed till The fact that the road had only one lane worsened the chaos.
