Concern over safety as more trucks take narrow Vypeen-Munambam highway
The Hindu
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Two persons died instantly after their car rammed a container trailer along the narrow Vypeen-Munambam State Highway around midnight last week.
It was symptomatic of the problem being faced by the 25-km highway after it is being increasingly taken by huge container trailers, mostly from the northern States, operating to and from the Vallarpadam Transshipment Container Terminal.
Avoiding the toll plaza at Mulavukad along the Container Terminal Road and saving a few kilometres and by extension fuel cost, being the incentives to take the narrow highway, causing considerable hardships to other motorists and even pedestrians.
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