Maharashtra: Truck rams 10 vehicles on Katraj-Dehu Road bypass

PUNE: An autorickshaw driver suffered fractures to his hand and leg and nine four-wheelers and a scooter were damaged after a truck carrying cement bags ploughed through the vehicles at Dattanagar along the busy Katraj-DehuRoad bypass on Wednesday afternoon.
The truck was on its way to Navale bridge from Katraj when the accident occurred and its driver was arrested.Police said none of the people inside the damaged vehicles was injured in the accident

An officer from the Bharati Vidyapeeth police said, “The truck driver told the police that he had repeatedly tried applying brakes to stope the vehicle. However, he said, the brakes did not work and he lost control over the wheels. We are verifying the truck driver’s claims and will wait for the RTO vehicle inspection report.”
Senior inspector Jagannath Kalaskar of the Bharati Vidyapeeth police said, “The autorickshaw driver, Ashok Arjun Nagarkar (50) of Pashan, had parked his vehicle along the bypass and walked a few distance ahead when the truck came from the rear and started dashing the vehicles. One of the vehicles hit Nagarkar. He was shifted to a private hospital at Dhankawadi. As many as seven cars, a scooter and two SUVs were damaged.”
Kalaskar said, “We have arrested the truck driver, Raosaheb Muralidhar Kute (31) of Kej in Beed district. He currently stays in Pune. Offences under sections 279 (rash driving or riding on a public way), 427 (mischief causing damage) and 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) of the Indian Penal Code have been slapped on him.”
The accident disrupted vehicular movement along the busy bypass, which connects the Mumbai and the Bengaluru highways, for nearly an hour, the police said. Traffic resumed only after the police and local residents removed the damaged vehicles.