22 April,2025 11:04 AM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondent
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An official said that a 27-year-old man was killed after his car got crushed between two heavy vehicles in Maharashtra's Thane district in the early hours of Tuesday, reported news agency PTI.
The accident occurred around 4.30 am on the Mumbra Bypass Road, said Yasin Tadvi, chief of the civic disaster management cell, reported PTI.
He said a truck rammed into the car from behind, causing it to hit another heavy vehicle in the front. The four-wheeler got crushed between two heavy vehicles.
The victim, Vishnu Pal, a resident of Navi Mumbai, was trapped inside the mangled car and was extricated after a two-hour-long rescue effort, the official said, reported PTI.
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Pal was rushed to a civic hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival, he said, reported PTI.
The accident affected traffic on the busy bypass road in the early morning hours. The damaged vehicles were moved using a Hydra machine.
The local police are probing into the incident, and the body of the deceased has been sent for post-mortem, the official said.
In another incident, three persons were killed and 12 others injured after a truck crashed into five vehicles on the old Pune-Mumbai highway near Lonavala hill station in Maharashtra, police said on Monday, reported PTI.
The incident took place at 10.20 pm on Sunday at Battery Hill near Bor Ghat.
The truck apparently suffered a brake failure while descending a slope. It then ran amok and hit five vehicles, a police official said.
"A 10-year-old girl and her father, who were travelling in a car, and another person died in the accident," Lonavla police station's senior inspector Suhas Jagtap said, reported PTI.
Twelve other persons were injured and rushed to a nearby hospital where they were currently undergoing treatment, he added.
A total of 35 people have been injured, with 10 being admitted to the hospital after a bus carrying devotees going for 'Dev Darshan' from Nashik to Shirdi collided with a parked truck in Buldhana, according to police officials on April 18.
(With inputs from PTI)
