4 students dead, one critically injured in Mumbai-Pune highway accident

Four students died while a girl student was injured in an accident on the old Mumbai-Pune highway after their car hit a truck in a head-on collision around 3am on Sunday.

The police said the students, who hail from Rajasthan, Gujarat, Chandigarh and Uttar Pradesh, were on their way to Lonavala for a trip and were speeding, when the accident took place. Two students were studying at Indira School of Business Studies in Tathavade village, while three others were students of Wakad’s Indira School of Career Studies.

The Lonavala rural police have identified the deceased as Rohit Sashikant Shukla, 23, a native of Kanpur, Garima Goyal, 22, a native of Chandigarh, Ankit Garg, 22, a native of Rajasthan and Aditya Agarwal, 23, also a native of Rajasthan.

The injured girl, Ishita Agarwal, 20, has been admitted to Phoenix hospital at Kalewadi phata with minor fractures to her right ribs and minor scratches to the right thigh.

According to the police, Ankit was driving the car when the steering wheel got locked and the car veered into the opposite lane.

Assistant inspector of the Lonavala rural police Sandip Yede said the car turned turtle twice before colliding with a truck coming from the opposite direction. Yede said Rohit, Aditya and Garima died on the spot due to the impact of the collision, while Ankit died on the way to hospital.