28 May,2024 06:53 AM IST | Mumbai | Shirish Vaktania
The truck clearly on the wrong side of the road. Pic/Hanif Patel
A week after 55-year-old Hanumant Kharat lost his life on a Kherwadi service road after being hit by a tempo driven on the wrong side of the road, two women lost their lives in a similar incident in Vasai, on Monday. The women were mowed down by a dumper truck that was on the wrong side of the road. The Waliv police arrested the truck driver and initiated an investigation into the mishap.
The deceased women have been identified as Manjita Jitu Saroj, 35 from Gaonrai Pada and Jindadevi Shailesh Singh, 50, from Evershine City area in Vasai. Both women were working as factory labourers. The accused Survesh Chaudhary, 24, driving a dumper truck (MH-43 BG 9228), was transporting goods from Mumbai to Vasai. The incident occurred in the Sativali area of Vasai East. According to police officials, the incident took place on Monday at 7 am in the Sativali area of Vasai East.
A police officer said, "Both women were walking to their jobs in the factory when the dumper driver came from the wrong side at high speed and mowed them down. Both women died on the spot. The intensity of mishap was so severe that the bodies of the victims were severed after the dumper ran over them. After hitting the women, the dumper crashed into a parked truck."
Senior police inspector Jayraj Ranvare of Waliv police station said, "We have arrested the truck driver and collected his blood sample to determine whether he was under the influence of alcohol. The accused is in police custody."
