New Delhi: At least six persons were injured when a truck hit multiple vehicles after its brake failed on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on Thursday, news agency PTI reported. The truck hit at least 12 vehicles, leading to six persons suffering injuries, near Khopoli in Raigad district, officials said.
"Police teams rushed to the site and sent the injured to the hospital. Vehicular traffic towards Mumbai was affected for some time," PTI quoted an official as saying. No casualty has been reported yet.
In a similar incident, as many as twelve people were injured in an accident after the bus they were travelling in overturned while trying to avoid a collision with a two-wheeler, on the Pune-Solapur highway near Bhandgaon village in Daund, on Monday.
Earlier this month, four people were killed and several were injured after their car hit a stationary truck on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. "Prima facie, it looks like the car was speeding. It first hit a divider and then went on to hit a stationary truck on the side of the road. Four occupants of the car have been injured," a senior police officer had said.
In another incident, four people were killed and 22 were injured after a truck rammed into a passenger bus on the Mumbai-Bengaluru National Highway.
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According to a police officer, when a private passenger bus, that was going from Satara to Dombivli in Thane, reached near the Swaminarayan temple, a truck coming from behind hit it. In the collision, three bus passengers and the truck driver were killed while 22 passengers sustained injuries.