The rising number of fatal road crashes along the killer Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway has shocked the Parsi community which often takes road trips to the Iranshah Atash Behram pilgrimage site in Udvada, Gujarat. Mumbai Central-based road activist Dr Boorjis Doctor, who made around 70 visits to the accident spot in Palghar district where Tata Group former chairman Cyrus Pallonji Mistry died in September 2022, provided crucial inputs to prevent accidents along the stretch. However, “inaction by the Highway State Police (HSP) has given a free hand to traffic rule violators who dodge the amended Motor Vehicles Act,” Doctor alleged.

Dysfunctional blinkers (circled) at the spot where Cyrus Mistry lost his life. Pic/Hanif Patel