A video captured by the cleaner of the lorry involved in the crash on the Samruddhi Mahamarg on Sunday shows that a patrol team of the Regional Transport Office (RTO) had brought the vehicle to a halt in the middle lane, causing a mini-bus to ram into it, leading to the loss of 12 lives.

Sources said that the lanes on the highway are split as per the speed at which the vehicles are driven and the lorry was stopped in the lane where vehicles travel at 80 kmph. RTO officials were patrolling in the vehicle provided by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) and they were asked to keep a vigil in the night as drivers tend to overspeed after sunset but they should not have stopped the vehicle in the middle of the expressway.