Seven dead, three injured as two vehicles collide on Samruddhi Expressway

The police on Saturday said that seven persons were killed and three others seriously injured after two cars collided on the MumbaiNagpur Expressway also known as Samruddhi Expressway in Jalna district of Maharashtra reported news agency PTIThe incident occurred around 11 pm on Friday near Kadvanchi village they said reported PTIThe victims were residents of Malad East in Mumbai and Buldhana district the police saidA multiutility vehicle MUV going from Nagpur to Mumbai and a car heading in the opposite direction collided headon resulting in the death of six persons on the spot One more person succumbed to injuries at a hospital later a police official told PTIThe impact of the collision was so severe that the MUV broke through the crash barrier and fell off on the left side of the road Local villagers and police rushed to the scene to rescue the persons trapped in mangled remains of the vehicles he saidDr Umesh Jadhav a medical officer at the Government District Hospital in Jalna told PTI six bodies were brought to the hospital for postmortem Three injured persons are being treated here while one critically injured person who was shifted to the Government Medical College and Hospital GMCH in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district died laterThree of the deceased are from Mumbai while as many others are from Buldhana district One person who was shifted to Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar is yet to be identified he saidThe three injured persons are from Mumbai he addedThe Samruddhi Highway is a 701kilometer sixlane expressway connecting Mumbai and Nagpur The first phase of the highway connecting Nagpur to Shirdi was inaugurated in December 2022In May a woman died and two others sustained injuries in a collision between a private bus and a state transport bus on the NagpurMumbai Samruddhi Expressway in Buldhana district Maharashtra reported PTIThe incident occurred on the ChikhaliMehkar stretch of Samruddhi Expressway on Saturday morning when a private bus travelling from Surat to Mehkar collided with a state transport bus from behindA female passenger aboard the state transport bus suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead upon arrival at a nearby hospital Two other passengers sustained injuries and are receiving medical treatmentThe driver of the luxury bus has been arrested under section 304A of the Indian Penal Code for causing death by negligence along with other relevant chargesWith inputs from PTI