India, Nov. 15 -- A day after eight persons were killed and twenty others injured in an accident on Navale Bridge on the Mumbai-Bengaluru highway, Union minister Murlidhar Mohol, Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) commissioner Naval Kishore Ram, and senior officials from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Friday inspected the site and called for a permanent solution to prevent further tragedies.

A meeting of all agencies has been called on November 15, said officials.

A container truck travelling from Satara to Mumbai lost control and ploughed into over 20 vehicles, setting off a chain collision, causing a massive fire on Thursday.

NHAI officials confirmed that the central road mini...