PUNE: Eight vehicles were damaged after a
truck
hit another
goods carrier
near
Navale Bridge
on
Katraj-Dehu Road bypass
around 11am on Saturday, leading to
vehicle pile-up
on the busy corridor.
No one was injured in the accident, said senior inspector Vijay Kumbhar of the Sinhagad Road police. “All the damaged vehicles had stopped at the signal near the Navale Bridge. A multi-axle truck came from Katraj Chowk and hit a truck from the rear. The second truck hit another truck, which in turn hit a stationary vehicle in front of it. This led to a cascading effect, in which six cars/SUVs and three heavy vehicles (including the truck that caused the accident) were damaged,” Kumbhar said.
Sub-inspector Suresh Jaybhay of the Sinhagad Road police said, “The truck belonged to a transport company from Karnataka. Its driver picked up iron angles from a company in Hyderabad. He was supposed to deliver them to a company in Mumbai. We have detained the truck driver and impounded the vehicle.”
He said, “The road from Katraj Chowk to Navale Bridge has a slope. The truck driver told us that he had applied the brakes, but the vehicle took time to stop because of the load. By that time, the truck hit another truck ahead of it.”
Jaybhay said, “RTO officials will examine the truck to assess if there was any problem with its brakes.”
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