Two killed, three injured as speeding SUV overturns on Samriddhi Expressway
At least two people died and three were seriously injured when a speeding SUV collided with a divider and overturned. Samriddhi Expressway is in Nashik district of Maharashtra On Thursday morning, the police said, reported PTI.
At the time of the incident, the SUV was going to Nashik from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in Maharashtra.
This accident happened in Khamble Shivar village near Sinnar city.
According to PTI, a police officer said that as the driver of the ill-fated vehicle lost control, it crossed the divider, broke the side barrier and overturned.
The people traveling in the SUV were residents of Karodi village in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district.
The deceased were identified as Bajirao Eknath Gangurde (65), who died on the spot, and Nisha Ramkisan Gatkal (20), who died during treatment at the hospital.
One of the injured has been admitted to a private hospital in Sinnar and the other two have been admitted to the District Civil Hospital in Nashik, the official said.
Several accidents have been recorded on the Mumbai-Nagpur Samriddhi Expressway since the inauguration of its first phase in December 2022, the news agency reported on Thursday.
10 people died after car collided with parked truck on Ahmedabad-Vadodara Expressway
Meanwhile, in another incident, around ten people in a car, including a child, died. speeding vehicle crashes The vehicle collided with a stationary truck on the Ahmedabad-Vadodara Expressway near Nadiad town in Gujarat’s Kheda district on Wednesday, police officials said, according to PTI.
Kheda Superintendent of Police Rajesh Gadhiya said preliminary investigation revealed that the Maharashtra-registered truck was parked on the leftmost lane of the busy expressway when it developed a mechanical fault and the car rammed into it from behind, the news agency reported on Thursday. Entered. ,
He said all ten people in the car, including the driver and a five-year-old child, died in the accident.
“The Gujarat-registered car was heading towards Ahmedabad from Vadodara when it collided with the back of a truck parked on the expressway near Nadiad.
Eight people died on the spot, while two injured people were taken in an ambulance to Nadiad Civil Hospital, where they later died.
The news agency reported on Wednesday that the truck was going from Pune in Maharashtra to Jammu when it developed a mechanical fault near Nadiad.
(With PTI inputs)