India, Feb. 5 -- Alarmed by the high rate of accidents on the Palghar stretch of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, the Palghar superintendent of police Balasaheb Patil has written to the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to put up crash barriers and take several other corrective steps on the highway. The letter was written on January 21 after statistics showed that 83 persons had died in 82 accidents in 2024.

Several augmentation measures were suggested after industrialist Cyrus Mistry and his co-passenger Jehangir Pandole died on September 4, 2022, after their Mercedes crashed into the boundary wall of the Surya river bridge. However, in the following year, there were 182 accidents on the highway in Palghar alone, in which 106 peop...