Two Die on Shimla Gorge Road Six Days Before Scheduled Widening Work Begins

Fatal crash on the Kiri-Naav route exposes a decade of deferred maintenance as the Public Works Department finalizes plans to widen the damaged stretch.

Two men died on July 19 when their vehicle plunged into a gorge along the Kiri-Naav road in Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla district, an accident that occurred less than a week before the state planned to begin repairs on the same stretch. Officials confirmed the deaths at the scene but have not cited road conditions as a factor in the crash, even as local reports attribute the route’s deterioration to heavy mining traffic and years of neglect. The fatalities place immediate pressure on a widening project scheduled to commence on July 25, testing whether the intervention addresses documented safety failures or merely adheres to an administrative timeline unrelated to the specific hazards that contributed to this weekend's tragedy.

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