A drunk driver veered his dumper truck off the highway onto a footpath crushing 9 folks sleeping on the footpath killing three, together with two toddlers, and injuring six others in Kesnand Wagholi on the wee hours on Monday, officers mentioned.
Based on eyewitnesses and police officers, the motive force recognized as Gajanan Shankar Totre, 26, was drunk when the incident passed off and has been arrested and charged with culpable murder associated offences.
The accident passed off at 1 am when the dashing dumper travelling from Pune to Ahmednagar out of the blue swerved off the highway and onto the footpath, the place 12 folks had been sleeping. Whereas 9 had been hit by the automobile, the others managed to flee with minor accidents.
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The victims had been rushed to Sassoon Normal Hospital, the place three of the injured stay in vital situation.
Senior inspector Pandit Rejitwad mentioned, “A case has been filed in opposition to the motive force. Three individuals are lifeless, six injured and three are vital and admitted to Sassoon hospital. The household who had come from Amravati to Pune in the hunt for informal work had been sleeping on the footpath adjoining huts alongside the roadside when the accident passed off.”
The deceased have been recognized as Vishal Vinod Pawar, 22; Vaibhavi Ritesh Pawar, 1, and Vaibhav Ritesh Pawar, 2. The injured embody Janaki Dinesh Pawar, 21; Rinisha Vinod Pawar, 18; Roshan Shashadu Bhosale, 9; Nagesh Nivrutti Pawar, 27; Darshan Sanjay Vairal, 18 and Alisha Vinod Pawar, 47.
A girl relative of the deceased mentioned that the household was pressured to relocate in the hunt for job due to their excessive poverty. “We request the federal government to make some house preparations for the bereaved household,” she mentioned.
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One other eyewitness mentioned, “The tragedy has left the hutment dwellers shocked, and a state of panic has gripped the households of labourers.”
Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar visited the spot within the afternoon and met the households of accident victims. “I’ve instructed the police to invoke probably the most stringent sections in opposition to the arrested accused, who was drunk on the time of the accident. We’re additionally taking motion in opposition to the dumper proprietor. The state authorities will handle medical bills of the injured and prolong different advantages to the affected households after dialogue with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis,” mentioned Pawar.
Shirur MP Amol Kolhe in a publish on X acknowledged, “The information of some labourers and their households sleeping on the pavement at Kesnand Phata, Wagholi in Pune being crushed by a dumper may be very painful. Harmless labourers and their households have misplaced their lives on this accident. I pay my heartfelt tributes to those that died on this incident and pray to Jagdamba for the speedy restoration of the injured victims.”
In the meantime, the state authorities has introduced ₹5 lakh reduction to the kin of victims and free therapy for the injured.
