27-year-old motorist killed after car crushed between two trucks on Mumbra bypass highway
THANE: A 27-year-old motorist was killed after his car was crushed between two trucks on the
Mumbra
bypass highway in the early hours of Tuesday.
The incident was reported around 4.03 am when the driver of a Gujarat-bound truck (GJ 03 BW 8753) lost control of his vehicle while descending the bypass route and rear-ended the ill-fated sedan (MH 43 CE 7369) on its way from
Kalwa
to
Mahape
, pushing it further to crash into a Pune-bound moving container truck (KA 42 B 3120). The impact badly mangled the car, trapping it between the two heavy vehicles.
The mishap left the driver trapped inside the mangled car, following which a team of rescue officials rushed to the spot. The drivers of both trucks could not be traced as they escaped from the scene.
The driver, later identified as
Vishnu Pal
, 27, a resident of Mahape, was travelling alone in the car at the time of the mishap. A team of civic rescue officials managed to extricate the driver from the mangled car and rushed him to the
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital
, Kalwa, where he was declared dead, informed
Yasin Tadvi
, in charge at the Thane regional disaster management cell.
The mishap affected traffic movement on the Pune-bound lane of the highway, following which the authorities deployed a Hydra machine to remove the affected vehicles from the spot. Traffic movement was restored slowly on the stretch, officials informed.
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