Mysuru: Many two-wheelers are regularly skidding on the Valmiki Road-Hunsur Road junction near a petrol pump on the Mysuru-Hunsur Road.
The culprit is a tree — Raintree Seedpod or Ablizia Saman (locally called Chatri Mara or Bage Kai Mara) — whose seeds, when crushed under vehicles and mixed with water, makes the road slippery. This particular stretch of the road becomes slippery every morning as many leaky water tankers pass through the road, splashing water all over the road. The water then mixes with the crushed seeds making the road slippery.
