A 54-year-old motorcyclist died after he was hit by a Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) bus on Race Course Road in Guindy on Monday evening.
The accident resulted in a massive pile-up of vehicles, had an impact on Sardar Patel Road, and affected traffic till the Madhya Kailash intersection.
Chennai City Traffic Police sources said that after the MTC bus hit the victim, Thangaraj, the driver lost control of the vehicle, which came to a halt after ramming a tree.
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With traffic coming to a halt on Race Course Road — through which all buses from Saidapet that are headed towards Tambaram and Poonamallee travel — vehicle movement was affected on Sardar Patel Road.
By the time the traffic policemen reached the spot, vehicles piled up on GST Road, Velachery Main Road and Sardar Patel Road.
With the Race Course Road branching off from the Guindy flyover, being very narrow and only one-way traffic allowed on it, the traffic police found it difficult to remove the bus from the accident spot.
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R. Satish, a motorcyclist, spent more than an hour in the traffic pile-up before reaching home from his office in Nungambakkam.