One person was killed and six others were injured after a container truck hit several vehicles near Bhumkar Bridge on the Mumbai-Bengaluru highway in Pune’s Narhe area late Saturday night.
According to police, the accident took place around 12:15 am when the container truck, travelling towards Mumbai, rammed into a concrete pump vehicle from behind. The container truck then hit another truck and a car near Bhumkar Bridge.
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Sandip Kumar, 22, from Sonbhadra in Uttar Pradesh, was sitting in the concrete pump vehicle and died in the accident. Devendra Yadav and Ramsingh Ramnarayan, who were also in the vehicle, were injured.
Truck driver Sureshkumar, cleaner Jobin Samuel, passenger Bhushan Saraf and container truck driver Dhanraj Vaishnav were also injured, police said.
An FIR was registered at the Narhe police station.
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According to Senior Police Inspector Varsha Deshmukh, Vaishnav, 32, from Ajmer, Rajasthan, has been booked for causing death by negligence and rash driving, along with other offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Motor Vehicles Act. He is in police custody.
The accident also caused traffic congestion in the area, which continued until the damaged vehicles were removed from the road.
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