India News | One Killed, Five Seriously Injured After Truck Rams into Vehicles on Highway in Nashik
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. A woman was killed, and five others were seriously injured after a truck crashed into vehicles in the ghat section of a national highway in Maharashtra's Nashik district, police said on Saturday.
Nashik, Feb 22 (PTI) A woman was killed, and five others were seriously injured after a truck crashed into vehicles in the ghat section of a national highway in Maharashtra's Nashik district, police said on Saturday.
The accident involving seven to eight vehicles occurred at Rahud ghat on the Mumbai-Agra Highway near Chandwad around 10 pm on Friday, an official said.
He said that as per preliminary reports, the brakes of a truck heading towards Mumbai failed on a slope, and it crashed into seven to eight vehicles, including cars and trucks.
The official said a 45-year-old woman in one of the cars was killed, five others were seriously injured, and a few persons sustained minor injuries in the accident.
He said the injured persons were rushed to Chandwad sub-district hospital.
The official said the traffic came to a standstill on the highway for some time, and the situation normalised by morning.
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