Poor road construction, potholes and connectivity, just 50 km from Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s residenceat, at Khutadi village in Thane district, caused significant inconvenience to the NDRF and TDRF (Thane Disaster Rescue Force) teams in reaching the accident spot on time.

NDRF officials said they relied on Google maps for navigation, which led them to take a wrong route, and they got stuck at a dead end in Shahapur taluka. An NDRF official told  mid-day that the road connectivity near the under-construction Samruddhi Expressway was so poor, with hundreds of potholes, that they had to reverse their vehicles on the main road at midnight to find an alternative route.