21 April,2025 12:17 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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The police on Monday said that a 38-year-old traffic warden died after falling into the sea while chasing a tempo that had allegedly violated traffic norms on the Mumbai Coastal Road, reported news agency PTI.
The incident occurred on Saturday evening, an official said.
The tempo, which was going from Tata Garden towards Worli, allegedly violated the traffic rules by entering the Mumbai Coastal Road where heavy vehicles are not allowed to ply, reported PTI.
Traffic warden Rafique Wazir Shaikh then chased the tempo on his scooter, the official said, reported PTI.
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Shaikh, however, lost control over his two-wheeler on a curve of the Mumbai Coastal Road and his vehicle skidded due to the sand there, he said.
The scooter then hit a cement railing of the road and Shaikh fell into the Arabian Sea, the official said, reported PTI.
An alert motor vehicle driver informed the police control room, following which security and fire brigade personnel rushed to the spot and pulled Shaikh out of the waters, he said.
He was rushed to the civic-run Nair Hospital where he was declared dead, the police said.
An accidental death case has been registered at Gamdevi Police Station, the official said, adding a probe was underway into the incident, reported PTI.
The Coastal Road stretches from Marine Drive to Worli along Mumbai's shoreline.
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 here 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, reported PTI.
"A 10-year-old girl and her father, who were travelling in a car, and another person died in the accident," Lonavala 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.
(With inputs from PTI)
