NEW DELHI: After Mumbai’s Ghatkopar, a similar incident was seen in Pune where another billboard installed on the roadside collapsed on a stationary mini truck in the Pimpri Chinchwad area on Thursday due to strong winds, police said.
No injuries were reported in the incident.
“A 30 x 30 feet hoarding erected on the margin of the road at Jai Ganesh Samrajya chowk in Moshi area collapsed around 4.30 pm.It fell on a stationary tempo truck and a couple of two-wheelers. Fortunately, no injuries were reported as there was nobody inside or on the vehicles,” an official from the Pimpri Chinchwad police said.
A crane was pressed into service to remove the crashed iron structure, he added.
On Monday, in the Mumbai incident, a 120 x 120 Ego Media Private Limited installed fell onto a busy petrol pump, trapping nearly 100 people underneath. Sixteen people lost their lives in the incident, and 75 others were injured.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) discovered that Ego Media Pvt Ltd, the advertising agency responsible for the Ghatkopar hoarding, had erected eight additional hoardings in the area without obtaining the necessary permissions from the civic body and issued notice against them.
It was revealed that the land parcels on which these hoardings were illegally erected are registered under the ownership of the Home Department and the Maharashtra State Police Housing Welfare Corporation, violating Section 328 of the BMC Act, 1888.
(With inputs from agencies)
No injuries were reported in the incident.
“A 30 x 30 feet hoarding erected on the margin of the road at Jai Ganesh Samrajya chowk in Moshi area collapsed around 4.30 pm.It fell on a stationary tempo truck and a couple of two-wheelers. Fortunately, no injuries were reported as there was nobody inside or on the vehicles,” an official from the Pimpri Chinchwad police said.
A crane was pressed into service to remove the crashed iron structure, he added.
On Monday, in the Mumbai incident, a 120 x 120 Ego Media Private Limited installed fell onto a busy petrol pump, trapping nearly 100 people underneath. Sixteen people lost their lives in the incident, and 75 others were injured.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) discovered that Ego Media Pvt Ltd, the advertising agency responsible for the Ghatkopar hoarding, had erected eight additional hoardings in the area without obtaining the necessary permissions from the civic body and issued notice against them.
It was revealed that the land parcels on which these hoardings were illegally erected are registered under the ownership of the Home Department and the Maharashtra State Police Housing Welfare Corporation, violating Section 328 of the BMC Act, 1888.
(With inputs from agencies)