Mumbai: BMC fixes divider at Oshiwara where delivery boy was killed

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC has fixed the divider at Oshiwara where a Zomato delivery boy was killed last month when a 19yearold student lost control of his Mercedes The car had climbed the divider and hit the 19yearold boys bikeLocals said a large section of the divider had been removed and this caused accidents the concrete divider after it was restored by BMCThe BMC has also kept a red fibre divider before the concrete divider to make it easily visible to drivers to avoid accidents The BMC action comes after middays report on the incident on December 19 Teen held after his speeding Mercedes kills Zomato Delivery Boy in which it was highlighted that locals had complained several times about the dangerous dividerLocals claimed a large section of the divider had been removed and this caused accidents as drivers would suddenly see the rest of it They said they did not know who had removed part of the dividerLocals claimed to have made many complaints to the Oshiwara police and the BMC seeking restoration of the divider A local claimed that they even keep big drums at the divider to ensure that drivers saw it and slowed downOn December 18 at 230 am Taiffur Tanvir Shaikh a resident of Lokhandwala was driving his Mercedes and had two relatives in it when between Vaibhav Circle and P Tandon Road he accidently drove over the divider and lost controlA shopkeeper from the area said We saw many incidents at this spot and the police always come to check the CCTV cameras which we have installed outside our shops We also wrote letters to the police station and BMC to fix this divider Finally after many years they have restored it and even put up a signThe incidentOn December 18 2020 Satish Parashnath Gupta a Zomato delivery boy and resident of Adarsh Nagar in Jogeshwari West was returning home after delivering food in Oshiwara when Shaikhs car climbed on the divider and hit Guptas bike on the opposite side of the road Guptas head got stuck between the wheel and the bonnet and he was dragged for around 50 metres Shaikh immediately hired a rickshaw and rushed Gupta to Kokilaben Hospital where he was declared dead Gupta had taken up the job two days before