Tag: Mumbai bridge crashes

Mumbai : Mumbai was crippled for the second time in less than a month after a section of a foot overbridge (FOB) crashed over the Western Railway tracks at Andheri following Tuesday's heavy rains which left many areas of the city flooded, playing havoc with road and rail traffic. But a much bigger potential disaster was averted when Chandrashekhar Sawant, the alert motorman of a Churchgate-Dahanu train, saw the bridge collapsing and applied emergency brakes barely 50-60 metres away. The heroic deed of Sawant earned accolades from Railway Minister Piyush Goyal...