In an unfortunate incident, five people from Telangana tragically lost their lives on Tuesday in a car accident after the driver lost control on the Pune-Solapur Expressway in Maharashtra, police said, news agency ANI reported.
The tragic accident occurred near Dalaj village under Bhigwan police jurisdiction.
Police gave details of the accident: “Six people were travelling in the car from Mumbai to Telangana when the incident took place in Pune. Five people died on the spot after the driver lost control and the car overturned on the Pune-Solapur highway,” ANI reported.
More details are expected.
In another incident, four people were killed and one injured when their car collided with a truck on a highway in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district on Monday, police said, PTI reported.
The accident occurred on the Nagpur-Tuljapur highway in Kalambh taluka in the morning, an official said.
The victims were driving from Punjab to Takhat Hazur Sahib Gurdwara in Nanded, he said, PTI reported.
The car struck the truck from behind, killing four occupants, the official said.
Bhajan Kaur (60), Balvir Kaur (74), Tejindra Singh (39) and driver Suraj Singh (44) were killed, while one person was injured and has been shifted to a hospital for treatment, he said, PTI reported.
Meanwhile, a water tanker allegedly driven by a 15-year-old boy injured a woman and a child in Pune on Saturday morning, police said, PTI reported.
The accident occurred around 6.30 am on the NIBM road, an official said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Ganesh Ingale said the tanker rammed into a two-wheeler, injuring the woman driver, before running over a pedestrian boy who was going to practice wrestling with some friends. The injured woman was identified as Geeta Santosh Dume (41), PTI reported.
“A 15-year-old boy was driving the tanker. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital and are out of danger,” Ingale said, according to PTI.
The underage driver was arrested while his father Shabbir Pathan and the tanker owner Mahindra Borate were arrested under the provisions of the Indian Penal Code, the Motor Vehicles Act and the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, an official at Wanowrie police station said.
Pune attracted national attention last month after a Porsche car, allegedly driven by a 17-year-old minor in an inebriated state, rammed into a two-wheeler in the Kalyani Nagar area on May 19, killing two technicians.
(With contributions from PTI)