From The Hindu · PTI · · 1m 40s
Five die as car hits bus on pothole-ridden highway
A speeding car swerved to avoid potholes on a Maharashtra bridge and collided head-on with a state transport bus, killing all five occupants including an 11-year-old boy.
In brief
A speeding car swerved to avoid potholes on a Maharashtra bridge and collided head-on with a state transport bus, killing all five occupants including an 11-year-old boy. Five people died when their car crashed into a state transport bus after swerving to avoid potholes on a Maharashtra highway on October eighteenth…
Five killed in highway collision
A car swerved to avoid potholes and collided head-on with a Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation bus in Beed district on October eighteenth, twenty twenty-six, killing all five occupants.
Crash location and victims
The accident occurred around eleven a.m. at Shindewadi Cross Road on the Khamgaon-Pandharpur National Highway in Majalgaon tehsil, about fifty-five kilometres from the district headquarters.
The five victims identified
The deceased were Omkar Mahadev Giri, aged twenty-four; Gajanan Mahadev Namdas, aged thirty-eight; his son Samarth, aged eleven; Somnath Bade, aged twenty-three; and Anil Acharya, aged forty.
How the crash happened
CCTV footage showed the speeding car lose control while attempting to avoid potholes on a bridge, leading to the head-on crash with the bus coming from the opposite direction.
Public anger over road conditions
Locals staged a road blockade alleging that substandard construction and poor maintenance had left fissures and uneven surfaces across the highway, turning the arterial road into an accident zone.
Traffic restored after protest
Traffic came to a standstill for several hours on the highway due to the protest before senior police and district officials arrived at the scene, pacified the protesters, and restored traffic flow.
The bottom line
Five people died when their car crashed into a state transport bus after swerving to avoid potholes on a Maharashtra highway on October eighteenth, twenty twenty-six.
