It took the loss of four lives for the authorities to fix one of the most dangerous accident stretches on the Western Express Highway at Akurli Road in Samta Nagar, Kandivli. mid-day had done a series of stories about this stretch of badly engineered road. The accident spot was located at Samta Nagar flyover under which there is a two-lane subway. The divider between the road was removed in 2021. Now MMRDA has levelled the entire road with the accident prone stretch.

MMRDA Metropolitan Commissioner S V R Srinivas told mid-day, “We removed two accident spots recently including one from Western Express Highway at Kandivli and another at Mulund Naka junction flyover. We levelled the road for the safety of the people so that no accident will take place at these spots.”