Five days after the fatal road accident of industrialist Cyrus Mistry and his friend Jehangir Pandole, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has put a reflector and warning sign board to “Go Slow”, but there are no rumble strips to alert drivers of potential danger, or any prior indication of the road narrowing from three to two lanes, leading to the “L” shaped death trap. mid-day has been relentlessly reporting on the blackspots on the highway and non-action by authorities.

The “Go Slow” board has been erected hardly 150 metres before the blackspot where the Mercedes carrying Mistry and three others rammed into a divider last Sunday evening. Speaking with mid-day, Harbans Singh Nanade, spokesperson of All India Vahan Chalak Malak Mahasangha said, “The NHAI officials have put up a warning sign board for the motorists to ‘Go Slow’, but there is no board to suggest the speed limit, or how slow should one go at the same blackspot,” he said, adding, “The entire stretch of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway is a ‘maut ka kuan’ (well of death), where motorists are driving their vehicles at their own risk. The authority is only extorting ‘toll’ for not maintaining the roads.”