Mumbai-bound car veers out of control and falls into rivulet 20 feet below; two kids among dead

For the Maldhawa family, a weekend of celebrations ended in tragedy, after four of its members were killed in a car accident on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway.


Deadly fall: The gap in the divider through which the car fell into the
rivulet below


The crushed Toyota Corolla. Pics/Vishal Suresh

The family from Model Colony, Shivajinagar, was yesterday going to Mumbai in a Toyota Corolla when around 8.30 am the car fell into a rivulet, some 20 feet below the Expressway, after crossing the Khalapur Toll Naka.

The car reportedly swirled off the road after the driver lost control, somersaulted once, hit the road divider and fell off the road into a rivulet, killing four of its occupants on the spot, including five-year-old Ranjit and eight-year-old Girish. The children's father Sunil Maldhawa (35) and their grandmother Shankuntala (55) were also killed.