A day after a hoarding fell in Mumbai, claiming 16 lives, another billboard installed on the roadside collapsed on a stationary mini truck in the Pimpri Chinchwad area of Maharashtra’s Pune district on Thursday due to strong winds, police said. However, nobody was injured in the incident.
A 30 x 30 feet hoarding erected on the road’s margin 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,” an official from the Pimpri Chinchwad police said.
“Fortunately, no injuries were reported as nobody was inside or on the vehicles,” the official added. He said a crane was pressed into service to remove the crashed iron structure.
The incident comes just a day after a hoarding fell in Mumbai, killing 16 people and injuring 75 others. The hoarding in Mumbai was 120×120 feet and fell onto a busy petrol pump during a storm on May 13. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Mumbai’s civic body, has said the hoarding was erected without its permission.
The BMC has issued notices to the Central Railway and the Western Railway administrations to remove oversized hoardings erected on their land. The notices have been issued under Section 30 (2) (V) of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, for the removal of hoardings above 40 x 40 feet in size.
