Chennai has witnessed multiple occassions of road cave-ins in the recent past. Loose soil, heavy traffic and metro tunelling are cited as primary causes for these incidents.
CMRL officials covering the road which caved in early hours, at Taylor’s Road junction on May 06, 2017.
A portion of the Mudichur Road in Tambaram which caved in on April 20, 2017.
Road cave-in at Prakasam Salai (Broadway Road) on April 19, 2017.
An MTC bus and a private car fall into a big crater on the arterial Anna Salai near the tunnelling site of Chennai Metro Rail on April 9, 2017.
Repair works being undertaken where the road caved in near Madhya Kailash on July 05, 2016.
A view of a road which caved in at Poonamallee High Road near Taylor’s Road on January 8, 2016.
Road caved in at Rajamannar Street off G.N. Chetty Road on January 05, 2016.
Road caved in at Poonamallee High Road near Ega Theatre due to Metro rail work causing traffic distruption on January 05, 2016.
Road caved in at the junction of South Mada Street and R.K. Mutt Road at Mylapore on December 25, 2015.