Three dead, 3 injured as car with drunk driver rams into other vehicles in Thane

Three persons died and three others were injured in a road accident in Ulhasnagar in Maharashtrarsquos Thane district on Monday a police official saidAt 530am a car with an allegedly inebriated driver dashed into autorickshaws and twowheelers under Central police station limits newswire PTI reported quoting the officialThe deceased and injured were occupants of the vehicles the car rammed into They have been identified as couple Subuddin Jana and Anjali Jana and Shambhuraj Chavan Three injured persons have been hospitalised he saidNagesh Ramani driver of the offending car fled from the scene of the crime but was held some time later the official saidHe has been charged for various offences under Indian Penal Code and Motor Vehicles Act PTI COR8 people killed as pickup vehicle collides with autorickshaw in PuneIn a separate incident eight people were killed after a speeding pickup vehicle collided with an autorickshaw in Maharashtras Pune district police said on MondayThe accident took place at around 1130 pm on Sunday under Otur police station limits on KalyanAhmednagar Road located about 150 km from here they saidThe pickup vehicle which was going towards Kalyan in Thane district from Ahmednagar collided with the autorickshaw coming from the opposite direction near a petrol pump at Pimpalgaon Joga an official saidSeven persons from the autorickshaw and the pickup vehicles driver were killed he saidMeanwhile Bollywood actor Ayush Sharmas car was hit by another car whose driver was allegedly in an inebriated condition in Mumbais Khar area police said on MondayAlso read Maharashtra unseasonal rains Crops damaged on 975L hectares CM announces aid for farmersThe actor was not in the car when the incident took place on Saturday His 31yearold driver who was alone in the vehicle at that time was injured and the car was damaged they saidAyush Sharma is the brotherinlaw of Bollywood superstar Salman KhanSharmas driver was going towards Bandra from Road No 16 near Khar Gymkhana when another speeding car came from the no entry area and hit the actors vehicle from the front side a police official saidThe offending cars driver Parvinderjeet Singh 35 who was allegedly under the influence of alcohol tried to escape but the police caught him and he was arrested the official saidSharmas driver Arman Mehandi Hasan Khan received injuries on his head and right leg he saidBased on Hasan Khans complaint an FIR was registered against Singh under Indian Penal Code sections 279 rash driving or riding on a public way and 337 causing hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others and provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act the police saidSharma best known for his 2018 movie Loveyatri was last seen in the 2021 film iquestAntimiquest alongside Salman Khan With inputs from PTI