Maharashtra (The Stellar News): On Friday, a 14 year-old girl sleeping in a roadside shanty was crushed to death after an empty truck overturned on her in Thane city of Maharashtra. The incident took place in the limits of Kapurbawdi police station on the Mumbai-Nashik highway around 6:15 am.
Avinash Sawant, chief of the Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC), said, “The victim, Madhu Bhati, a toy seller hailing from Gujarat, was sleeping in a roadside shanty when the speeding truck overturned on her. The driver of the truck, which was going to Mumbai from Nashik, apparently lost control over the vehicle that led to the accident”.
“After being alerted about the mishap, teams of the fire brigade and the RDMC rushed to the spot and pulled out the girl trapped under the truck with the help of a crane”. After being trapped under the truck for 2 hours, the girl was immediately taken to the Thane Civil Hospital where she was declared brought dead and the driver of the truck fled from the spot right after the incident.
Senior inspector Uttam Sonawane of Kapurbawdi police station said that an offence was registered against the truck driver under the sections of IPC and the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act and started searching him.
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