pune accident

A 32-year-old woman died and three others, including her four-year-old son, suffered serious injuries in a hit-and-run accident after a car hit them around 7am on Saturday near Navale bridge on Katraj-Dehu Road Bypass. The victim and the others were on their way to Konkan for a trip.

Two men were killed and one sustained injuries after a truck crashed into a container truck at Kunjirwadi on Pune-Solapur highway. The accident happened in the early hours of Friday.

The roads in the city, including highways passing through it, recorded 309 accident-related fatalities this year so far, registering a rise of 33% as compared to 206 such casualties in the pre-pandemic year of 2019, data available with the Pune traffic police has revealed.

Three women farm workers died and six of their colleagues suffered injuries when the tractor-trolley they were travelling in fell into a dry canal and turned on its side at Ravangaon village in Daund taluka, nearly 85km from the city, on Thursday evening.

A truck driver, who was crossing the Pune-Mumbai expressway on foot after parking his truck at Urse, died on the spot after a speeding vehicle hit him during wee hours of Tuesday.

Police said Victor Guha was driving at breakneck speed and had probably lost control before ramming into the vehicle coming from the opposite direction at Dehu Road crossing.

A woman and her son, out on an evening walk, were critically injured after they were hit by a speeding car near a housing society at Wanowrie around 9pm on May 24.

Two accidents occurred within two hours of Sunday night's pile-up in which a truck hit more than 25 vehicles near Navale bridge.

A cement bulker swerved to avoid hitting a motorcyclist but rammed into a scooterist and then a tree at Hadapsar on Thursday. The tree fell on an autorickshaw, killing its driver. The scooterist and the bulker's driver and cleaner were injured.

Yavat’s Mohammed Ali got the shock of his life early in the morning on Saturday when he went to rescue the passengers in the mangled multi-utility vehicle (MUV) on Pune-Solapur highway. He found his cousin trapped inside the vehicle.

Three pedestrians were killed after a mini-truck knocked them down on Mumbai-Bengaluru highway in Pune on Tuesday morning, police said.

A woman, riding a pillion on a motorcycle driven by her friend, died after their bike met with an accident near the Bhairoba Nala PMPML bus stand on Sunday.

An 18-year-old youth died on the spot after he was knocked down by an unidentified dumper.

A cab driver, who drove his vehicle into a "no entry" zone in the Cantonment area here, collided with four cars and some two wheelers, injuring three persons last night, police said.

Two doctors from Sassoon General Hospital arrested for tampering with blood sample in fatal Porsche crash involving IT professionals in Pune.

Fatalities because of accidents on highways passing through the rural parts of the district showed a marginal dip in 2019, but the number was high enough despite police stepping up measures to arrest the nearly four-year trend.

Two young software engineers, Aneesh Awadhia and Ashwini Koshta, tragically lost their lives in Pune when a Porsche Taycan car, driven by a prominent builder's 17-year-old son, hit their motorcycle at high speed. The incident led to a series of events including the arrest of the teenager, the involvement of the Juvenile Justice Board, scrutiny of CCTV footage, closure of pubs, and political reactions from figures like Sanjay Raut, Vijay Wadettiwar, and Rahul Gandhi. Investigations are ongoing under the Motor Vehicle Act.

A motorcyclist was killed and the pillion rider escaped with minor injuries when a speeding dumper hit their bike from the rear on the Mundhwa-Kharadi bypass around 11.40am on Monday.

Three people were killed and two others injured after a car collided with a two-wheeler on the Solapur-Pune highway on Thursday here in Maharashtra, said police.

The recently-demarcated two-wheeler lane on the busy section of Baner Road and Aundh Road near Savitribai Phule Pune University has helped reduce the traffic congestion in the area, said police.