Truck breaks down, creates traffic jam for 5 hours in NH-24

• December
• 8

4:19 am Trucks

Traffic on the highway linking East and Central Delhi was held up for over five hours on Friday morning when a truck broke down on the busy Nizamuddin Bridge leading to the Ring Road.

The truck, loaded with rice, was headed to one of the mandis in Delhi. When its axle broke down, it collapsed, leading to a jam. Police rushed a traffic crane to move it off the road, but the hook of the machine also broke down, forcing the traffic to proceed inch by inch. The Traffic Police offered a lame excuse for the fiasco. “Our cranes are meant to pull smaller vehicles. This crane could not take the pressure of a fully loaded truck,” said Joint Commissioner, Traffic.