Mumbai-Pune Expressway pile-up, 3 commuters dead

Three persons died in a road accident that caused a seven-vehicle-pile-up on Mumbai-Pune Expressway at Khopoli in Raigad district on Monday morning.

According to the police, a truck loaded with poultry, heading towards Mumbai from Pune, lost control and rammed into two other vehicles moving in the same direction near the Borghat area at Khopoli around 6 am.

Two persons travelling in the car and the driver of the poultry truck succumbed to their injuries. However, a few other passengers caught in the pile-up escaped with minor injuries.

The accident resulted in a traffic jam which eased after the vehicles were removed from the road.