Kasurdi: On 21st September at 3.30 am, a car with 5 people hit the truck near Kasurdi village, around 50 kilometers from Pune city on Pune-Solapur highway.
Five people were killed after the car they were travelling in hit a container truck on the Pune-Solapur highway in the early hours of Monday.
Pune Rural police said, ‘he driver of the truck halted midway after the car rammed into it from behind’. All 5 passengers were found dead on spot as the car was in full speed which had a subsequent impact after hitting the truck, police said.
Pune Rural jurisdiction’s Superintendent of Police, Abhinav Deshmukh, confirmed the deaths and said a probe is going on to ascertain the exact cause of the accident.
Another accident was reported from the highway in the intervening midnight of Sunday and Monday.