Truck travelling from wrong side rams into bus at Vasai, 3 dead

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A truck travelling on the wrong side of the road rammed into a MSRTC bus near Vasai on Friday afternoon resulting in the death of three.

The incident happened when the MSRTC bus was headed from Boisar to Pune on the Mumbai-Ahmadabad national highway. When it reached Maljipada in Vasai around 1:45 pm, a truck travelling on the wrong side of the road crashed directly into the bus.

The impact of the collision with the truck resulted in the immediate death of the bus’ driver Ishwar Akram, cleaner Vishal Jadhav and an unidentified passenger.

Around eight more people were reportedly injured and were rushed to Golden Park hospital in Vasai for treatment.

As of now, there is no update on whether the truck driver was arrested or not, although eye-witnesses claim that even the truck driver had sustained injuries.