A Hyundai Santro, belonging to Sushil Verma, caught fire while he was driving to his office in Munirka. Although Verma escaped unhurt, an Apache motorbike belonging to a man named Arman also caught fire seemingly from the heat generated by the car blaze.
Verma said he had bought the car 10 years ago and had got it serviced regularly by a known mechanic. Fire department officers suspect the blaze to have been caused due to loose engine wire. Police said the vehicle had a CNG kit but ruled out leakage as possible reason.
A large crowd gathered on the spot to watch the car burn. Fire officials, too, received a call around 11.30am but a tender could only reach the spot around 12.15pm due to the ensuing traffic jam. The flames were put out within minutes but the car had been completely destroyed in the blaze.
Although only one carriageway of Outer Ring Road was occupied by the burnt vehicle, people stopped to watch the sight. The ripple effect was such that traffic crawled for 6-7km and the jam continued till 2.30pm. The situation worsened after a protest by family members of a 19-year-old youth, who was stabbed to death on Tuesday night, blocked the Khanpur T-point choking BRT which crosses Outer Ring Road at Chirag Dilli.
Though a team from traffic police was deployed to clear the choke points near Mathura Road, Captain Gaur Marg and Aurobindo Marg, traffic remained slow due to the ongoing Metro construction works and the large volume of vehicles. Traffic officials tried diverting smaller vehicles to connecting roads, but these, too, soon got jammed with increase in traffic pressure. "It took more than three hours to ease the traffic flow. Things went back to normal only after a group of heavy vehicles that were stuck since morning were cleared," said a traffic police official.
Traffic experts explain that the stretch—Mathura Road to RTR flyover—on the Outer Ring Road which connects south Delhi and Noida to IGI airport and Gurgaon is the busiest in the city during peak hours with more than 12 lakh vehicles passing through it. The road has three lanes on either side and a vehicle breaking down or a car fire on any one carriageway leads to tremendous pressure on the remaining two.
"The weaving distance for all flyovers on the Ring Roads is less than what is prescribed in master plan which leads to bottlenecks at the mouths and more snarls," N Renganathan, an expert on road traffic movements, said.
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