Overview
- The crash occurred around 6:30 am beneath Navale Bridge on the Mumbai–Bengaluru highway when a truck from the Katraj side hit vehicles halted at a signal.
- Police say six vehicles were struck in a chain collision, with several people injured and one motorcyclist killed at the scene.
- The deceased was identified as Ashpak Hanif Chowdhary, 36, of Ashraf Nagar in Kondhwa, whose body was sent to Sassoon General Hospital for a post-mortem.
- The driver, identified as Shankar Gopalrao Medebane, 33, from Bidar, was detained and booked under BNS sections including causing death by negligence and rash driving, along with Motor Vehicles Act provisions.
- Traffic was cleared after emergency response, and investigators from Narhe and traffic police units are probing the circumstances on a stretch recorded as an IRAD black spot with prior fatal crashes, including one last November.