Just two months after it was opened, the Mrinal Gore flyover in Goregaon witnessed a deadly accident yesterday. An auto rickshaw driver lost control of his vehicle on the road, slick with rain. One of the passengers in his vehicle, a 58-year-old man lost his life after another vehicle rammed into the auto from behind and knocked it on its side.

Despite numerous warnings and simple common sense that the monsoon makes the roads particularly precarious, this auto driver was speeding leading to the passenger’s tragic end. The car which rammed into the auto was also travelling at very high speed. If the speed was within limits, the driver could have at least avoided the collision or the impact would have been less. This is once again a huge warning for those who scoff at wisdom about keeping an eye on the speedometer in this season. Today, the driver too, has to live with the fact that a man has died and he has some share of the blame in the tragedy.