A car swerved violently across the new Mumbai sea bridge, slammed its railing and then flipped over multiple times before it came to a halt, showed dramatic dashcam footage.
The video, captured by the dashcam on the car behind it, shows the hatchback cutting across lanes and slamming into the railing on Sunday afternoon. The car, travelling to Chirle (a village in Uran taluka of Raigad district), had two women, children in it at the time of the accident. All passengers are reported safe.
The woman at the wheel lost control of the vehicle and it hit the divider, said police, adding that the vehicle flipped and skidded along the road for some distance before returning to an upright position.
Officials said this is the first accident on India's longest sea bridge, known as Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sewri-Nhava Sheva Atal Setu, which connects south Mumbai with the satellite city of Navi Mumbai.
The six-lane trans-harbour bridge is 21.8 km long with a 16.5 km sea-link.
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