Palghar (Maharashtra), May 1 (PTI) A 50-year-old woman was killed and 15 members of her family were injured after a trailer truck rammed into their mini-bus on Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Palghar district
on Friday evening.
The accident, which took place at around 6 pm near Chinchanipada, caused a traffic jam, police said.
The family was traveling from Gujarat to drop off a family member at the Mumbai airport.
The bus had a flat tyre, causing it to slow down, when a speeding trailer truck coming from behind hit it, a police official said.
The impact left 15 passengers seriously injured while Pushpa Lad (50) died on the spot.
Inspector Amar Patil of Kasa police station told PTI that the injured were rushed to Kasa sub-district hospital.
Notably, this was a second accident on the highway in a span of 12 hours. A car carrying Palghar MP Hemant Sawara collided with a dumper truck on Friday morning. The car was heading towards Gujarat when it collided with the dumper coming from the opposite direction, said an official of Naigaon police station.
Sawara escaped with minor bruises, but his driver suffered fractures and was taken to a private hospital for treatment. PTI COR KRK
