A 46-year-old man riding pillion was killed after a motorcycle hit a pothole, the police said. The deceased was run over by a dumper on Mumbai-Nashik Highway in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Monday, according to the PTI.

The accident happened at Rajnoli Naka in Bhiwandi on Saturday, when the victim Brijeshkumar Jaiswar was travelling towards Thane city, senior inspector Ganpat Pingle of Kongaon police station said, as per the PTI.