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Mumbai, January 10: In a tragic incident, three youngsters died and two others were injured after the car they were travelling in met with an accident on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. The accident took place on Tuesday when their car hit a tempo near Khopoli in Raigad district.
The group of five youngsters, including three girls, was travelling to Pune from Mumbai. While they were crossing Dhamani village around 9:45 AM, their car hit a tempo, which was moving in the same direction, said police, the Hindustan Times reported.
“The car was totally damaged in the accident. A boy and a girl suffered severe injuries and died on the spot. They have been identified as Faijan Shaikh, 19, a resident of Mukadam Chawl in Kurla and Sweda Dubey, 19, a resident of Ghorbundar Road in Thane,” said a police officer.
The three others — Shraddha Morya, 21, Nilesh Raj Thakur, 18, and Rizwana Chaudary, 18, — were injured. “They were rushed to MGM hospital in Kamothe by some local residents. However, Shraddha succumbed before she reached the hospital. Nilesh and Rizwana are still under observation. They are reportedly stable now,” the officer said.
Faijan was driving the car and had lost the control of the vehicle and hit the tempo from behind, the police said.
It appears that the group was visiting a theme park to celebrate a birthday. “My brother had left home in the morning saying he was going to celebrate the birthday of one of his friends. But we had no idea whose birthday it was. We learnt about the accident after we received a call from the police after a few hours and came to the hospital,” said Nishant Raj Thakur, Nilesh’s younger brother.
According to Nishant, everyone in the group passed their 12th from a college in Vashi. “They were on a break and were preparing for medical entrance and IIT,” he said.
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