4 killed as car overturns and collides with truck on highway in Maharashtra

Four young men were killed and two others injured after their car hit a road divider, overturned and collided with a truck on the Pune-Bengaluru National Highway in Maharashtra's Satara district in the early hours of Tuesday, Aug 11 police said.

The accident occurred at 1:10 a.m. on the Satara-Pune lane of NH-48 at Shirwal in Khandala tehsil, and affected traffic on the busy route, PTI reported.

"A car was heading from Pune towards Satara when the driver lost control. The vehicle hit the divider and overturned, after which it veered into the opposite lane and collided with a truck," a highway police official said.

Four occupants of the car died on the spot. They were identified as Vedant Arjun Waringe, 19, Sonling Dhirendra Thakur, 19, Nikhil Balu Raut, 20, and Aditya Balasaheb Garud, 19, all from Pune district.

Two other occupants of the car, both aged 20 and residents of Kamshet in Pune, sustained injuries and were admitted to hospital for treatment, the official said.

The accident-hit vehicles were later removed with the help of a crane, and traffic on the highway was restored, police said.