Three heavy vehicles, a car involved in highway crash
Three heavy vehicles, a car involved in highway crashu00a0
AT least three people were killed, including a woman, and eight injured in an accident involving two trucks, a water tanker and a car early yesterday morning near Tathawade village on the Mumbai-Bangalore highway. The condition of three of the injured was said to be serious.
Two trucks, a water tanker and a car were involved in the pile-up. Traffic was affected on one side of the highway, and vehicles were seen lined up even as far as two kilometres from the accident spot at 2.15 am. The identity of the deceased could not be immediately established, said the police. The injured people from the trucks, the tanker and the car were rushed to Aditya Birla Hospital in Chinchwad.
The accident took place opposite MTU India Private Ltd at Tathawade; a chilli-laden truck jumped over the divider to cross over to the other side, turning turtle. This obstructed a junk-laden truck, which hit the brakes hard and was rammed by a water tanker behind it. A car got trapped between these heavy vehicles and was knocked off the highway.
ASI Harishchandra Kadam of the Hinjewadi police station said the mishap occurred as the driver of the chilli truck lost control. "The junk-laden truck coming from the opposite direction was also moving fast, at 100 kmph. It was the worst-hit of the lot, as it got sandwiched from both sides," he said.
