Three killed, one injured as car hits parked container truck in Nashik

An official said that three persons were killed and one seriously injured after the car they were travelling in crashed into a parked container truck in Maharashtras Nashik district in the early hours of Thursday reported news agency PTIThe victims of the Nashik accident were on their way to attend a funeral when they met with the accident at Wake Shivar near Malegaon on the MumbaiAgra national highway around 430 am he said reported PTIAccording to police a sports utility vehicle with four occupants rammed into a container truck parked on the roadside near Hotel New BabaMeenakshi Arun Hiray 53 her sister Anisha Vikas Sawant 40 and her husband Vikas Chintaman Sawant 45 died at the scene The fourth person in the car Vaibhavi Pravin Jadhav 17 sustained serious injuries and was taken to a private hospital reported PTIThe three deceased were residents of Thakurli in Thane district All four were going to Malegaon to attend a relatives funeral he said reported PTIPolice have registered a case and further investigations are underway in the Nashik accident the official addedIn another incident two persons were killed in separate road accidents in Sonegaon and Lokmanyanagar in Nagpur police officials said on Thursday reported PTIIn the first incident which took place at 1 pm on Wednesday at Somalwada Square HPCL employee Dinesh Ladi 26 was injured after a container truck rammed into his motorcycle a Sonegaon police station official said reported PTIHe was rushed to a private hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival Container truck driver Maheboob Ashfaque Khan 21 was arrested he said reported PTIThe second incident took place late Wednesday night in Lokmanyanagar area an MIDC police station official saidRaju Tulsiram Waghmare 40 was crushed by a truck at 9 pm A case has been registered and further probe is underway he said reported PTIMeanwhile a fiveyearold girl was crushed to death by a bus belonging to the local civic transport undertaking in Maharashtras Nashik city on Wednesday afternoon police said reported PTIThe minors grandfather who was accompanying her received injuries in the accident they said reported PTIAccording to the police the deceased was identified as Sanvi Sagar Gavai a Class I student whose family resides in the Nashik Road area reported PTIThe girls grandmother Jijabai Gavai runs a tea stall in the area and she used to come there while going to school and before coming home Sanvi Gavai came to the tea stall as usual at around 130 pm they said reported PTIShe was leaving for home with her grandfather when a Citilinc bus hit her killing her on the spot said the policeCitilinc is the public transport bus service provided by Nashik Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Ltd reported PTIAfter the accident the bus driver fled the spotLocal residents and workers staged a protest and demanded immediate arrest of the bus driver who they claimed was under the influence of alcohol when the accident took placeWith inputs from PTI