cricketer where there were no potholes on the road Rishabh Pant’s car almost met with a fatal accidentAn official of the National Highways Authority of India gave this information on Monday.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, after meeting the cricketer at a hospital in Dehradun on Sunday, had said that Pant told him that his car met with an accident when he was trying to avoid a pothole on the highway.
However, Pradeep Singh Gusain, project director of NHAI Roorkee division, told PTI, “There was no pothole on the road where the accident took place. The road where the car met with the accident was blocked due to a canal (Rajwaha) adjacent to the highway.” It is a bit narrow. It is a canal. is used for irrigation.”
Gusain also denied that the accident site was repaired by the NHAI and “potholes” were fixed, though some photographs of workers purportedly repairing a section of the highway went viral late Sunday evening.
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Dhami had told reporters after meeting Pant at Max Hospital that the cricketer had lost control of the vehicle while trying to avoid a pothole or a black object.
After meeting the cricketer in the hospital, Dhami told reporters, “He (Pant) said that while trying to avoid a pothole or some black object, the car overturned on the road.”
Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) director Shyam Sharma, who met Pant on Saturday, also quoted the keeper-batsman as saying that the accident happened in the early hours of Friday when he was trying to tackle a pothole.
The major accident took place around 5.30 am on Friday when Pant’s luxury car crashed into a road divider near Roorkee in Haridwar district and caught fire, leaving the cricketer with multiple injuries, but miraculously survived. were saved from