A 50-year-old woman was killed and 15 members of her family were injured after a trailer truck rammed into their mini-bus on Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Palghar district on Friday evening, reported PTI.
The accident, which took place at around 6 pm near Chinchanipada, caused a traffic jam, police said, reported PTI.
The family was traveling from Gujarat to drop off a family member at the Mumbai airport.
The bus had a flat tyre, causing it to slow down, when a speeding trailer truck coming from behind hit it, a police official said, reported PTI.
The impact left 15 passengers seriously injured while Pushpa Lad (50) died on the spot, reported PTI.
Inspector Amar Patil of Kasa police station told PTI that the injured were rushed to Kasa sub-district hospital.
Notably, this was a second accident on the highway in a span of 12 hours. A car carrying Palghar MP Hemant Sawara collided with a dumper truck on Friday morning. The car was heading towards Gujarat when it collided with the dumper coming from the opposite direction, said an official of Naigaon police station, reported PTI.
Sawara escaped with minor bruises, but his driver suffered fractures and was taken to a private hospital for treatment.
Car-laden container collides with truck in Thane; both drivers injured, traffic hit
In another incident, a container carrying cars rammed into a truck in Maharashtra`s Thane district early on Tuesday, leaving both drivers with minor injuries and disrupting traffic, officials said, reported PTI.
The incident occurred at 3.16 am in Bholenath Nagar at Shilphata, they said.
The container was transporting seven cars of a company from Gujarat to Pune when its driver lost control of the wheels. As a result, it rammed into a truck moving ahead of it, Thane`s disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said, reported PTI.
The truck was carrying around six tonnes of paint from Mankoli in Bhiwandi to Khalapur in neighbouring Raigad district.
Following the collision, several barrels fell onto the road and the paint spilt, leading to a slippery surface and slowing traffic movement on the busy stretch, the official said.
Police, fire and disaster management personnel rushed to the spot after being alerted. A crane was deployed to shift the damaged vehicles to the roadside, he said.
Both drivers sustained minor injuries and were provided medical treatment on the spot, Tadvi said, reported PTI.
Traffic on the Thane-Shilphata road moved at a slow pace for some time. The rescue teams spread soil over the spilt paint. The road was later cleared and traffic movement was restored, the official said.
(With inputs from PTI)
