Ganesh Landage, 19, was fast asleep moments before the private bus he was travelling in, met with an accident. “We were woken up by conductor’s voice waking up passengers who were to alight at Nashik. Within a few minutes there was a huge collision and then somebody shouted “aag laagli... aag laagli” (fire...fire). We saw a few people jumping out of the window. Some of us rushed towards the door, which was jammed and we could not open it. We, too, then jumped out of the window. Some locals then rushed to help us.” Landage was travelling from Washim to Mumbai with four others. Total six passengers were from Mumbai.

Twelve people, including a three-year-old, were charred to death and 43 people were injured after a private bus belonging to Chintamani travels, heading from Yavatmal in Vidarbha to Mumbai had a head-on collision with a heavy vehicle. The accident took place in the wee hours of Saturday, on the Nashik-Aurangabad road near Mirchi hotel signal. The collision led to a massive fire in the bus, restraining passengers including women and children, many of whom were asleep at that time, from making an escape. Sources said that the diesel tank of the truck might have exploded during the collision which caused the fire.