Traffic on the busy Hosur Road was disrupted for more than four hours and thousands of motorists were stuck in a pile-up after a parked car on Hosur Road junction caught fire due to short circuit on Wednesday morning.
Vehicles were stranded forming a serpentine queue for over 2 km on either side of the road. It resulted in chaos with impatient and agitated motorists incessantly honking, while traffic police personnel were conspicuous by their absence.
“I called up the control room to update about the jam, but was directed to contact the Madiwala Traffic Police. I was then told to call the jurisdictional Electronics City Traffic Police,” Sridhar Murthy, one of the motorists told The Hindu . “I even called the fire control room and informed the personnel there about the accident. Two fire tenders, who came for help, were also stuck in the jam,” he rued.
Some frustrated truck drivers and motorists got down from their vehicles and volunteered to clear the traffic to allow vehicles to pass.
“There was some traffic disruption, but we tried our best to clear the road,” a senior police officer said. Normality was restored after traffic police rushed to the spot and allowed the fire tenders to reach the spot and doused the fire.
