A portion of the road caved in under the left rear tyre of a BEST bus at the junction of Babasaheb Jaykar Marg and Jagannath Shankarsheth Road at 9.25 am on Monday, where work on the underground Girgaon Metro station on Aqua Line 3 is in progress. No injuries were reported. The incident occurred due to ingress of water from a leakage in a nearby utility, which created a cavity under the surface of the road, which was not visible to motorists or pedestrians.

When a BEST bus halted above this cavity, the road surface gave way, forming a crater. The source of the leakage is not yet known. The bus was retrieved and transported to the Backbay Depot within an hour of the incident. Meanwhile, Jaykar Marg was closed to commuters by the traffic police, leading to traffic snarls.