Four from city crushed on NH-3 as bulker truck falls on their car
The accident occurred on the Nashik-Mumbai stretch of the Mumbai-Agra National Highway, or National Highway 3,at 2pm on Thursday.
The deceased have been identified as Nityanand Sawant (62), Vidya Sawant (65) and Veena Sawant (68) of Four Bungalows in Andheri (West), and the driver of the car, Dayaram, also from Mumbai.
Inspector Vijay Shinde of the Ghoti police station said, "The bulker truck and the car were both on their way to Mumbai.
The truck overtook the car near Mundhegaon, and the driver lost control of the vehicle. The truck toppled onto the car and crushed all its occupants."
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Shinde said all four people in the car died on the spot, and the truck driver was arrested following a complaint of causing death by negligent driving.
The truck was removed using a crane, and the bodies were sent to the Ghoti rural hospital for post-mortem.
The police said the Sawants had gone to Mundhegaon for a Guru Pournima religious programme and had started the return journey when the accident occurred shortly after entering the highway.
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Local residents and police responded promptly. The accident disrupted traffic movement for several hours until the vehicles were cleared after primary investigations.
The police said the necessary panchanama was done immediately and that traffic congestion spanned a couple of kilometres on both sides.
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