THANE: A 14-year-old woman died after she was crushed beneath a truck that misplaced management and turned over on her shanty early on Friday on the arterial Mumbai-Nashik freeway, police mentioned.
Avinash Sawant, chief on the regional catastrophe administration cell, Thane, mentioned the incident was reported round 6am on the Nashikbound lane of the freeway.
The sufferer was a toy vendor and a local of Gujarat, and was staying within the space for a while, officers mentioned.
“The truck was in all probability dashing down the flyover when a automobile in entrance of it all of a sudden slammed the brakes, following which the motive force swerved his automobile to keep away from a collision. This will likely have led the truck to skid, flip over and crash on the shanties alongside the roadside. The woman was alone and sleeping on the time of the mishap,” mentioned senior inspector Uttam Sonawane at Kapurbawdi police station.
Locals and passersby rushed to assist, police used a crane and extricated the woman from beneath the truck, and rushed to a neighborhood hospital the place she was declared lifeless.
Police registered a case towards the unidentified truck driver who escaped after the incident.
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