Mumbai: One injured as speeding SUV hits autorickshaw in Kandivali; driver held

One person was injured when a speeding SUV collided with an autorickshaw in the western suburb of Kandivali in Mumbai police told news agency PTI on FridayThe accident took place at EMP circle in Thakur village in the intervening night of Thursday and Friday an official told PTIThe autorickshaw driver Raghuvansh Udit Narayan Tiwari a resident of Mira Road sustained serious injuries when a speeding SUV collided with his vehicle the official told PTIThe police have arrested the 28yearold car driver the official told PTI adding that the injured man is undergoing treatment at a local hospitalMeanwhile a 36yearold man was seriously injured and hospitalised after being hit by a police vehicle at Panvel in neighbouring Raigad district of Maharashtra an official told PTI on FridayThe incident occurred on Thursday evening in a slum where a police team went to crack down on a group of gamblers he saidDuring the incident the police vehicle suffered damages as it also dashed against the compound wall of a college after its driver lost control the official told PTIThe Panvel police station had received a tipoff that some people were gambling on a ground near a college Accordingly a police team went to the spot around 450 pm on Thursday in a police jeep On seeing the police the gamblers started running away the police official told PTIDuring the melee the driver of the police vehicle lost control and dashed against a slum resident identified as Ashok Shivram Manjule who suffered serious injuries He was admitted to a hospital where he is undergoing treatment the official told PTIThe police vehicle also hit the compound wall of the college in which it suffered damages he addedA case under Indian Penal Code IPC sections 279 rash driving 337 causing hurt 338 causing grievous hurt and 427 mischief causing damage was registered against the constable driving the vehicle the official told PTIInvestigation into the incident is on he saidEarlier a 30yearold man was killed after his motorbike hit a pillar on Ghodbunder Road in Maharashtras Thane city on Monday morning an official told PTIThe twowheeler then burst into flames he saidAuthorities were alerted about the accident at around 530 am Thane Municipal Corporations disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi told PTIThe man from Mira Road area was proceeding on his motorbike towards Thane on Ghodbunder road when his vehicle dashed against a pillar of the ongoing Metro line work He fell down and died on the spot the official told PTIDue to the impact of the crash the motorbike caught fire and was completely charred he saidWith inputs from PTI