Thane: Unidentified vehicle collides with road divider in Panchpakhadi

A street light was damaged in an accident involving an unidentified vehicle that collided with a road divider in the Panchpakhadiarea of Thane on Sunday eveningThe incident which took place at 714 pm was reported to the disaster management cell by a local representative Rajesh More According to the information received the vehicle hit the road divider causing a street light pole to fall onto the roadEmergency services including personnel from the disaster management department and a pickup vehicle were promptly dispatched to the site No injuries were reported in the incidentThe staff from the disaster management cell assisted by employees from the Thane Municipal Transport TMP Electricity Department quickly took action to clear the areaThey used a grinder machine to cut the fallen pole and reopened the road for trafficTwo critically injured in cement mixertruck collision on NashikMumbai HighwayA serious road accident occurred near the Cadbury Signal on the NashikMumbai Highway in Thane West during the early hours of Sunday leaving two people critically injured The incident took place between 7 am and 730 am near the Chirag Nagar Bridge ascent opposite Krishna MotorsAccording to the information provided by Police Constable Atish Tumbade to the disaster management cell at 801 am a stationary Tata Ultra truck MH 05 DK 6107 loaded with around five tonnes of cement blocks experienced a technical malfunction while en route from Sinnar to Mumbai The truck owned by Sabaji Morya and driven by Sandeep Yadav was parked along the highway when a Tata cement mixer truck MH 04 HY 6830 rammed into it from behindThe cement mixer truck owned by Skyway RMC Plants Pvt Ltd was carrying 15 tonnes of cement and was heading from Ovala Thane to an LampT site in Mulund The driver Mukesh Yadav 30 lost control of the vehicle leading to the collision The mixer truck also had a helper identified as 25yearold PankajEmergency services including personnel from Rabodi Police Station city traffic police disaster management cell staff and Thane Municipal Corporations solid waste management team were promptly dispatched to the site along with one towing van a fire engine and a rescue vehicleBoth the driver and the helper of the cement mixer truck were critically injured and trapped in the cabin Local citizens managed to rescue them and rushed them to Titan Hospital in Manpada Thane for urgent medical attentionThe collision caused cement blocks diesel and shattered glass to spill onto the highway These were promptly cleared with the assistance of disaster management personnel solid waste management staff and fire brigade officials Traffic on the NashikMumbai Highway was disrupted for about an hour moving at a slow pace