Updated On: 02 July, 2012 07:04 AM IST | | Sukirt D Gumaste
Guards deployed by Ideal Road Builder to guide traffic in case of mishaps, handle technical glitches on Pune-Mumbai Expressway often end up as accident victims
Following up with ‘part four’ of the E-Way campaign, triggered by the increasing number of fatal accidents that have claimed several lives in the recent past, MiD DAY had discovered that while people believe that only motorists end up as victims of road accidents on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway, it is only the half truth.

Highway Victim: IRB guard Balu Shankar Bhanusagre (left), was left with a fractured leg after being hit by a speeding car while he was on duty. After a year’s hospitalisation he resumed work last month. Pic/Krunal Gosavi