Webdesk: Late Wednesday night in Gurugram, India, a large crater opened up on the Southern Peripheral Road (SPR), swallowing a truck and severely disrupting traffic.
According to Indian media reports, the incident happened at around 10:30PM following heavy rainfall that caused a part of the road to cave in.
The truck overturned and has remained stuck in the collapsed section since.The downpour was unusually intense, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) reporting 133 mm of rain over 12 hours, including a heavy spell of 103 mm within just 90 minutes.
Nearby Wazirabad tehsil also saw 122 mm of rain during the same period. This sudden flooding is believed to have caused the road to collapse.
The truck driver sustained only minor injuries and was later called by local police to provide a statement. Officials say the affected section of the SPR had recently undergone sewer maintenance, but the exact cause of the collapse will only be confirmed after a full technical inspection.
By Thursday morning, as per Indian media reports, traffic in Gurugram had come to a near standstill. Several stretches, especially the Narsinghpur section of the Delhi-Gurugram Expressway, were submerged under water. Subhash Chowk saw water levels rise to as high as 2.5 feet, leaving drivers stuck in traffic until 2:00AM.
Authorities issued advisories asking people to avoid non-essential travel. “Waterlogging has been reported at many places across Gurugram due to heavy rain since last night. Traffic jams with movement disruption may take more than usual time to commute,” said Gurugram traffic police in a social media post.
Rain began falling around 7:00 pm on Wednesday and continued late into the night, causing jams that stretched into the early hours of Thursday.
Gurugram’s road failures reveal cracks in India’s infrastructure push
While India boasts the world’s second-largest road network, its condition often presents significant challenges for commuters and the economy.
Gurugram Road Caves just after the rain.
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However, the lives of common people gets destroyed if they encounter an accident pic.twitter.com/ZCZcr9bVbG
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The #GurgaonRains have again highlighted infra issues ailing #Gurgaon #Gurugram but there is something different this time . Its @MunCorpGurugram attitude. For first time in years you see their workers out at night to keep city going fighting jalgram BTW Majority of waterlogged… pic.twitter.com/bE74xs1LiB
— Sumedha Sharma (@sumedhasharma86) July 9, 2025
The #GurgaonRains have again highlighted infra issues ailing #Gurgaon #Gurugram but there is something different this time . Its @MunCorpGurugram attitude. For first time in years you see their workers out at night to keep city going fighting jalgram BTW Majority of waterlogged… pic.twitter.com/bE74xs1LiB
— Sumedha Sharma (@sumedhasharma86) July 9, 2025
Potholes are rampant on many roads, especially in rural roads or roads not considered major national coastal roads and proper maintenance of the roads is quite lacking.
Such a lack of infrastructure leads to rich traffic snarl-up, vehicle wear and tear, fuel consumption and, to the misfortune of the people, disproportionate cases of road accidents.
Notwithstanding the recurrent development efforts by the government, such as the Bharatmala Pariyojana and PM Gati Shakti, which seek to modernize and extend the network of roads in the Indian subcontinent, the existing problems involving poor control of quality of the construction works, inadequate finances to maintain them, and the land acquisition related issues, persist and complicate the further attempts at ensuring smooth, unproblematic movement regardless of what part of the country one happens to be periodically passing through.
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