THANE: Five people suffered serious injuries after the sports utility vehicle (
SUV
) they were travelling in
collided
with a
stationary truck
on the Eastern Express highway near Panch Pakhadi area early Monday morning, civic rescue officials said.
The incident was occurred around 7.30 am when the SUV carrying maintenance equipment for railway cables was on its way to Thane railway station from Vasai when the driver lost control of vehicle which collided into the parked truck that was loaded with nine tonnes of bricks, senior inspector Ravi Kshirsagar at the Naupada police station said.
The
injured
have been identified as driver Fayaz Shaikh (51), Vikas Kumar (21), Santosh Kumar (24), Shiv Shankar Aditya (33) and Pradeep Prasad (25) and were taken to the Thane Civil Hospital following which two of them, who were in critical condition, were shifted to a Mumbai hospital, officials informed.
The impact of the collision left the SUV in a mangled condition trapping the five people inside following which the police and rescue officials rushed to the spot. While four managed to come out quickly, one of them got trapped inside the mangled vehicle and was rescued after a gruelling hour long rescue operation, Yasin Tadvi, in-charge at the Thane regional disaster management cell chief said.
The Naupada police said they will record statements of the injured following which a case will be registered.
Meanwhile, another person was booked under relevant sections of the IPC and MVA when he accidentally pressed the accelerator and crashed into few parked vehicles in the wee hours of Monday near Masunda lake.
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