A total of seven people have been injured in the accident out of which four people have been severely injured and three have suffered minor injuries
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Four people were killed and three others injured after a container truck hit multiple vehicles on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on Tuesday morning, police said.
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The accident took place near Borghat in Khopoli area around 6.30 am after the truck driver lost control over the wheels, a police official said.
Maharashtra | Four people killed after a speeding truck lost control & collided with several vehicles stuck in slow traffic along the Mumbai-Pune Expressway in Khopoli, Raigad, at 6:30am today; 7 people were injured, of which 4 people were shifted to a hospital: Expressway Police pic.twitter.com/2U7sgFMrP6
— ANI (@ANI) February 15, 2022
The truck first hit a car and then dashed against four other vehicles on the busy route, he said.
Police and rescue teams rushed to the spot. Four occupants of a car died on the spot. Three passengers of another vehicle received injuries and they were rushed to a hospital at Kamothe in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, the official said.
The bodies were sent for postmortem, the police added.
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