India News | Maha: Three Killed as Car Rams into Stationary Truck on Mumbai-Pune Expressway

Pune, March 17 (PTI) Three persons died after the car they were travelling in crashed into a stationary truck on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on Friday morning, said an official.

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Police said that the incident took place around 7.30 am near the Talegaon toll plaza on the busy carriageway.

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“The car was travelling from Mumbai to Pune. It hit a loaded stationary truck, which was parked on the roadside. All three occupants, all male, died on the spot,” said a police official from Shirgaon police station.

He added that the impact was so powerful that the car nearly went under the truck.

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