Nashik: 1 Killed, 5 Seriously Injured After Truck Rams into Vehicle on Highway

Nashik: A truck collided with cars in the ghat stretch of a national highway, killing a woman and badly injuring five more on Friday.

Around 10 p.m. on Friday, a collision involving seven or eight vehicles happened at Rahud Ghat on the Mumbai-Agra Highway close to Chandwad, according to an official.

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He said that as per preliminary reports, the brakes of a truck heading towards Mumbai failed on a slope, and it crashed into seven to eight vehicles, including cars and trucks.

The official said a 45-year-old woman in one of the cars was killed, five others were seriously injured, and a few persons sustained minor injuries in the accident.

He said the injured persons were rushed to Chandwad sub-district hospital. 

The official said the traffic came to a standstill on the highway for some time, and the situation normalised by morning.