Updated On: 05 February, 2026 09:40 PM IST | Pune | mid-day online correspondent
Traffic on the expressway remained disrupted for more than 30 hours after the accident, which occurred on Tuesday evening. Movement was suspended as a safety measure after the tanker began leaking highly flammable propylene gas

A massive traffic jam was caused by an overturned gas tanker on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. File Pic/PTI
Struck for hours in Mumbai-Pune Expressway traffic jam, a Pune-based industrialist Sudhir Mehta took a helicopter to return to the city, reported the PTI.
He was reportedly stranded for nearly eight hours on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway due to a massive traffic jam caused by an overturned gas tanker.