Car rams into parked truck on Mumbai-Pune Expressway, 3 dead: Police

A speeding car rammed into a parked truck on Mumbai-Pune Expressway near Urse village on Friday morning, leaving three people dead, police said today.

According to an official statement issued by the Shirgaon police, a speeding car crashed into a stationary truck from behind, parked on the roadside leaving the driver of the vehicle among three people dead. The car, with registration number MH04 JM 5348 was on its way to Pune from Mumbai, when the driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the loaded truck (RJ 09 JB3638), police said.

The truck was parked on the roadside, reportedly due to a flat tire. The accident was reported at around 7:30 am on Friday morning.

The impact was so powerful that the car nearly went all the way under the truck, killing all three aboard in the horrific crash, adding the mangled remains of the car had to be cut open with a cutter to remove the dead body inside.

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A senior official said the two of the victims have been identified as 70-year-old Vijay Vishwanath Khair and 43-year-old Rahul Balkrishna Kulkarni, while the identity of one more deceased is yet to be ascertained. One of accident victims is a resident of Satara district.

The official said that upon receiving information, a police team of Devdoot highway police, along with rescue teams, arrived at the spot, took custody of the bodies and sent them to a hospital for postmortem.

The macabre crash caused a traffic jam on the busy expressway.

The official said that traffic was affected due to the accident but was restored shortly after the mangled vehicle was removed from the road and everything returned to normal.

He said that a case has been registered in this regard and further investigation into the accident is ongoing.

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