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Traffic on the Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway eased up Sunday afternoon following a 17-hour-long gridlock after an oil tanker met with an accident near Nooriabad overnight, DawnNews reported.
The oil tanker was on its way from Karachi to Hyderabad when the trawler's driver reportedly sped up near Nooriabad, causing it to flip over, National Highways and Motorway Police (NHMP) officials told DawnNews.
No injuries were reported.
Passengers stuck on the highway spent the night stuck in cars cramped bumper-to-bumper along the stretch of motorway.
According to police, the traffic jam along the route intensified when, after the accident, cars began going the wrong way.
NHMP officials said that because of the gridlock, it was difficult to reach the site of the accident with the heavy machinery needed to remove the oil tanker. The tanker was finally removed a little after noon, they added.
They added that construction work on the motorway also hindered their efforts to clear the route.
The Hyderabad-Karachi section of the motorway is now open for traffic.
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Apr 09, 2017 12:18pm
It's what it call the miss management of the Traffic.
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Apr 09, 2017 12:20pm
I don’t know why we call it SUPER HIGHWAY! It’s an ordinary road with bumps, no safety measures/markings or traffic signs for drivers.
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Apr 09, 2017 12:26pm
Is this the condition of our Super Highways? Only highways, no emergency services?
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Apr 09, 2017 12:35pm
Another case of negligence in a country where negligence is more of a norm. I feel sorry for those who got caught in the middle of it and were affected by this mishap.
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Apr 09, 2017 12:38pm
It is really massive traffic jam and it is very shameful for Motorway Police who claim their efficiency of highest level but even were unable to remove the long vehicle that met accident from road. We saw hardly 4 vehicles of Motorway just standing helpless. Even they were not guiding the Ambulances and light vehicles to opt sideways to move rather were just allowing Government number plated vehicles and police escorts to use wrong ways to go forward. High time for government to reform and capacity building of Motorway Police. Even other motorway police officials were not called to tackle such emergency situation. No words to explain the difficulties faced during way.
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Apr 09, 2017 12:58pm
Incomplete projects...lies told to the nation; national interests sold. Welcome to Pakistan, where every road is a super duper highway because the government says so.
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Apr 09, 2017 01:03pm
They will still vote to PPP lolz
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Apr 09, 2017 01:20pm
Hope Chinese cranes soon come and clear the traffic. They are on their way from Beijing. Have patience.
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Apr 09, 2017 01:27pm
PPP and PMLN both have destroyed Pakistan. This important highway was made without planing.
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Apr 09, 2017 01:40pm
@haider shaikh - It's motorway now as NS has inaugurated it.
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Apr 09, 2017 01:46pm
Heavy inflow of FDI are needed in infrastructure for better high ways
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Apr 09, 2017 01:55pm
@Mashiqkhan It's a joke on Motorway also.
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Apr 09, 2017 02:04pm
@ajay long live recently built CPEC
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Apr 09, 2017 02:36pm
Accidents happen all over the world but no one take wrong way unless instructed to do so. The menace of wrong way driving, sooner or later will be very deadly.
If, we as citizen wont fulfill our responsibility; no infrastructure development will deter this kind of situation.
Have patience while driving and let other people have their right of movement
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Apr 09, 2017 02:47pm
@Naveed Totally agree. Going wrong side has become a culture and people would go the moment there is some hindrance in their path without realizing that their actions will worsen the situation. Well educated people are no different here.
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Apr 09, 2017 04:33pm
@Naveed Yoya are very correct..Accidents happen on the highways, it does not mean that people start moving on the wrong way. They are the main cluprits who reached home few hours earlier but thousand of people were late and have spent their night on the highway. Pure selfishness.
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Apr 09, 2017 05:10pm
Thanks God. The worst traffic jam ordeal for the people is over.
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Apr 09, 2017 05:15pm
@Pavan Who will pump money?
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Apr 09, 2017 05:48pm
@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad many meanings equals means nothing.
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Apr 09, 2017 06:15pm
THE OTHER HALF OF EQUATION
Corrupt Govt officials, insufficient resources and lack luster police is only one half of this equation.
The other half is motorist's adherence to traffic rules. In a normal country, all the cars would be standing in one line waiting for the traffic to open up. Police and emergency vehicle would utilize the shoulder to get to the scene of the accident.
But in our country, no one wants to wait. I am sure they would not have left any room on the shoulder resulting in all this mess.
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Apr 09, 2017 06:20pm
Motorways are required to have shoulders on each side designated only for law enforcement and emergency vehicles. This would be a half-hour job in a properly designed system.
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Apr 09, 2017 08:38pm
@Bakhtawer Bilal Absolutely Correct
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Apr 09, 2017 08:47pm
If this is super highway then I don't want to know what a regular highway is.
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Apr 09, 2017 10:19pm
Building highways is not enough, traffic management infrastructure and personnel are essential!
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Apr 09, 2017 10:46pm
Everything not just traffic is mismanaged all over Pakistan. First inline for the blame should be the drivers, a miniscule minority has driver education in rules of the road or courtesy of how to share the road with the rest of the traffic. Then the provincial government they are always quick to complain about everything except their own performance (read Sindh Police) The police are just so busy bilking cash out of the traffic they can't be bothered by anything else. Within the city limits they are quick to blame the KMC, forgetting they had control of the city for nearly a decade before restoration of local bodies. Even after that province is doing everything known to man to tie their hands and shoot them in the back. Nothing is ever going to change.
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Apr 10, 2017 01:48am
Can't image it. Seventeen hours. Some people must have panicked. Any comments here from people who were stuck on the roadway? A tanker truck is the worst if it catches on fire.
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Apr 10, 2017 01:50am
@arshad ... First thing I thought of was emergency services trying to reach the tanker truck.
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Apr 10, 2017 01:56am
@haider shaikh ... That thought entered my mind looking at the photos that this was not what I would call a modern four lane highway. Six lanes, three in each direction, would be a fantastic super highway between Karachi and Hyderabad. However, road projects must be built with tax money.
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Apr 10, 2017 09:31am
@haider shaikh So is the reason this is super highway.
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Apr 10, 2017 09:52am
This is how motorway works in Pakistan ?
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Apr 10, 2017 10:02am
@SM that is not a motorway but a normal highway. Motorway is under construction
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Apr 10, 2017 12:18pm
Those who had travelled would agree that traffic management was scarcely in place due to divergence since work on superhighway started for conversion. many diversions were very rough and dangerous. Road barriers were not positive isolation at many places between incoming / outgoing traffic. Further compounding the issue is our dear drivers with zero patience. Driving wrong side, moving out of que on non paved roads are all norms. Many serious accidents had happened. I wonder why goods traffic was not diverted on national highway and buses and cars only on superhighway since start of road. construction. Our responsible agencies seems not to have common sense to think and manage such mega issue of road management during construction, a road which is main artery to Pakistan.
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Apr 10, 2017 07:57pm
@Bakhtawer Bilal very true 10000% agreed
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