Six passengers dead, 3 seriously injured after their car hits vehicle on Expressway

Officials said teams from the police station, State Highway Patrol and Emergency Response teams, deployed on the Expressway, responded to the situation.

Police personnel inspect the wreckage of the car after a collision with a vehicle on Mumbai-Pune Expressway near Khopoli, in Raigad district on Friday. PTI

SIX PERSONS died and three more were seriously injured after the car that was ferrying them from Pune to Mumbai rammed into a heavy vehicle on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway in Khalapur taluka of Raigad district on Friday midnight.

There were eight passengers in the car, along with the driver, said officials of Raigad District Police. The accident took place near Dheku village in Khalapur taluka of Raigad, in the Borghat Division of Pune-Mumbai Expressway. “The driver of the Ertiga had picked up commuters from Pimpri-Chinchwad area and was on his way to drop them in and around Dadar in Mumbai.” said Deputy Superintendent of Police (Khalapur Division) Sanjay Shukla.

“Around 12 am, when the car was at Dheku village, it rammed into an unidentified heavy vehicle from behind at high speed. Four persons were killed on the spot. One more person succumbed to injuries on the way to the hospital while one more died during treatment.” said Inspector Shirish Pawar, in-charge of Khopoli police station. The three injured are being treated at a hospital at Kamothe near Navi Mumbai.

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Officials said teams from the police station, State Highway Patrol and Emergency Response teams, deployed on the Expressway, responded to the situation.

Inspector Pawar added, “Probe suggests that the driver, identified as Macchindra Ambore, was driving the car at a high speed. The speedometer was locked at 128 km per hour at the time of the accident.”

Police have identified the deceased as Abdul Khan (32), a resident of Ghatkopar, Anil Sanap (32), a resident of Barshi in Solapur district, Wasim Kazi (38), a resident of Rajapur in Ratnagiri District, Rahul Pande (30), a resident of Navi Mumbai, Ashutosh Gadekar (23), a resident of Khed in Pune District and Amirulla Chaudhary, whose details were not immediately available. The three injured persons have been identified as Macchindra Ambore (38), a resident of Chinchwad who was driving the car, Asifia Raees Chaudhary (25), a resident of Kurla and Deepak Khairal, whose details were not immediately available and who, according to police, was on ventilator support at a hospital in Navi Mumbai.

Police have booked Ambore for negligent and rash driving, causing death due to negligence and various relevant provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act.

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