A food delivery boy died on Friday after an overspeeding Mercedes hit his scooter in the Oshiwara area of Mumbai, reports news agency ANI.
“An overspeeding car lost control & jumped a divider, hitting my nephew’s scooty. He died in hospital later,” ANI quoted Saroj, deceased’s uncle, as saying.
Mumbai police arrested the driver and impounded his vehicle after the case was reported.
According to a Times of India report, Maharashtra witnessed more fatal road crashes in January-October 2020 than during the same period in 2019 despite the fact that COVID-19 lockdown had kept citizens inside homes for a better part of this term
Latest being this week’s grisly road crash where one person got severely injured and 10 vehicles were damaged after a truck driver lost control of his vehicle on the bypass road of Mumbai-Bangalore Highway near Navale Bridge in Pune.
Nashik topped this list with 610 deaths this year, while Pune (Rural) and Ahmednagar each reported 520 deaths.
