Palghar: Woman dies after her stole gets entangled in motorbike wheel

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A 27-year-old woman riding pillion on a motorbike died after her 'dupatta' (stole) got entangled in a wheel of the two-wheeler in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took place on Sunday morning when Pratima Yadav, from Kandivali in neighbouring Mumbai, was returning with her husband after visiting a temple in Vasai area here, an official from Naigaon police station said.

Her stole got entangled in the motorbike wheel near Bapane village on a highway. She got strangulated and fell down from the two-wheeler, the official said.

The woman received severe injuries and was rushed to a local hospital where doctors declared her brought dead, the police said.

The body was sent to a government hospital for postmortem, they added.

On Monday a container overturned, crossed the divider, and crashed into five cars on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway in Maharashtra's Raigad district, resulting in the death of two individuals and injuries to four others.

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According to the Raigad police, the mishap occurred at 9 am when the container with registration number MH-46-AR-0181 was en route from Pune to Mumbai. The container swerved from the Mumbai-bound lane, causing it to overturn onto the lane headed towards Pune.

Authorities stated that the container was travelling from Pune to Mumbai and the accident occurred due to excessive speed, causing it to lose control and veer into the opposite lane. The collision trapped five cars under the overturned container, leading to the immediate death of two individuals, one woman. Additionally, four others sustained injuries.

The accident impacted a total of five small cars. Tragically, the driver of a Suzuki Dzire car and a woman in a vehicle bearing registration number MH-48-A-6512 lost their lives on the spot. Two injured women from the same car were immediately rushed to the hospital. Additionally, two women from another car also sustained injuries and have been admitted to MGM Hospital in Kamothe.

Somnath Gharge, SP Raigad, stated, "Agencies are on-site to determine the cause of the accident, and the process to book the container driver is underway. Initially, vehicular movement on the Pune-bound lane was halted to remove the damaged vehicles, but now traffic is flowing normally for both directions - towards Pune and Mumbai." The identification of the deceased is currently being ascertained. (With inputs from agencies)