CURATED BY – SUNIL YADAV | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Katni, A heavy iron pole fell from a truck on the road in Katni district and hit the car. Luckily, an entire family of NKJ residents travelling in the car narrowly escaped. This entire incident took place at Jain Colony turn of NKJ police station area.
Shekhar Verma, who was travelling in the car, said that he was coming towards Katni in a car with his wife and two children, when a truck was carrying iron poles at Jain Colony turn. Then a pole fell from the truck on the road. The fallen pole hit the car. Luckily, the pole fell on the front part of the car due to which the front part of the car was badly damaged. However, the people travelling in the car are completely safe. Shekhar Verma told that the truck was carrying heavy iron poles used in LNT work. Due to the high speed of the truck, the driver suddenly applied brakes and the iron poles loaded in the truck fell on the road. The pole that fell on the road hit a car in which four people of the same family were travelling. All the four people in the car are safe. The pole fell on the front part of the car due to which the car got badly damaged. The traffic got blocked due to the pole falling on the road and a large number of people were stuck in the jam for hours. Passersby informed the NKJ police about the incident. The police reached the spot and removed the pole from the road and started the traffic smoothly.