A 75-year-old female pedestrian was crushed to death by a speeding dumper in Maharashtra`s Thane district, an official said on Wednesday, reported news agency PTI.
Trupti Mhaskar was walking along the Chedda Road in Dombivali East when she met with the fatal accident on Tuesday, he said, reported PTI.
A dumper belonging to the Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation ran over Mhaskar. She was rushed to a hospital, but died while being treated, reported PTI.
The dumper was allegedly being driven rashly. Its driver has been arrested, said senior inspector Ganesh Juwadvad of the Dombivili police station.
Cop dies, another injured as speeding car hits them on Mumbai Coastal Road
In another incident, a 52-year-old head constable died and a policewoman was injured after a speeding car hit them on the Coastal Road in Mumbai on Tuesday, officials said, reported PTI.
The incident took place at 7.53 am when the two police personnel were on bandobast duty at a connector of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link and Coastal Road, an official said.
A speeding car hit the two personnel, who suffered serious injuries, he said.
Both were rushed to a private hospital where head constable Dattatray Kumbhar succumbed while constable Riddhi Patil was undergoing treatment, the official said, reported PTI.
Both the personnel were from Worli police station.
The car driver, identified as Ramchandra Rane (46), was taken into custody, the police said, reported PTI.
Meanwhile, an LPG tanker overturned in a hilly area near Chandwad on the Mumbai-Agra national highway in Nashik district, causing a gas leak and triggering panic among locals, police said on Tuesday, reported PTI.
Nobody was injured in the incident.
Efforts to plug the gas leak have been going on for the last 15 hours, an official said, adding that traffic on the highway has been diverted.
A BPCL tanker carrying LPG overturned in Rahud Ghat near Chandwad around 10 pm on Monday.
“Following the incident, gas started leaking on a large scale, creating panic in the area. Chandwad tehsildar, police personnel, and a technical team of BPCL immediately reached the spot and began the efforts to stop the gas leakage on war-footing,” an official said, reported PTI.
(With inputs from PTI)
