he says i was also lucky that there was no vehicle behind me else i could have died this common connecting vein to secondary urban roads is paved with grey interlocking tiles on the main stretch followed by a combination of red and grey tiles on the other sections and both have caused numerous accidents the tiles on the main road are extremely slippery and have lost the necessary friction the traffic was bumpertobumper when i skidded while taking a turn and hit my right leg this road from metro supermarket on the national highway to maya garden phase1 is unsafe even for the pedestrians who break a hip or a knee after skidding but i still dont know how i slipped on this road two months ago around 630pm on my way home from work the spot outside dominos pizza shop before the main showrooms is an infamous slippery spot since at least 8to10 twowheeler riders skid there each day said karthik mehra a nearby resident if the longstanding traffic and parking problems on the vip road had not made the arterial path dangerous enough for twowheelers now the carpet of tiles has become slippery the roadside vendors cause traffic jams and force twowheeler riders to apply sudden brakes to avoid crashing into other vehicles the problem has remained for years yet the municipal corporation or dera bassi legislator n k sharma has initiated no formal redress mechanism the flesh wounds have healed but i require daily sessions of physiotherapy there was no water or gravel on the surface that day and i was going at about 25 kilometres an hour these kind of road tiles are meant for internal roads and not main routes nirmal chhaya towers resident welfare association rwa president asish mathew said zirakpur luckily the cars behind didnt run me overthe the pain is terrible high concentration of roadside food vendors has also congested this route another nearby resident sahiba 29 said i have been driving an activa for long he is glad that it happened on a sunday morning when there wasnt much traffic on the otherwise choked road kunal dhawan 32 of nearby nirmal chhaya towers who was in one of these accidents said on a sunday morning almost five weeks ago i was on a honda activa scooter on the road near dominos when i slipped and hurt my left knee and calf severely the danger level shoots up significantly on the days water accumulates on the road after rain or a sewage spill loose gravel at certain points such as the lohgarh road is another issue said vikas sharma a nearby resident