{"id":300409,"date":"2018-07-16T06:03:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T06:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300409"},"modified":"2018-07-16T06:03:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T06:03:41","slug":"seven-die-in-car-accident-at-old-pune-mumbai-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/seven-die-in-car-accident-at-old-pune-mumbai-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven die in car accident at Old Pune-Mumbai Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300410 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accident-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/accident-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/accident.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Seven people died and three critically injured after two cars collided with each other on the Old Pune-Mumbai Highway near Lonavala on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The collision happened between a swift car, coming from pune to Lonawala and a Santro car, coming from lonavala to Pune.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the police sources, the driver of swift who was heading towards lonawala, lost control and rammed into the road driver, the impact was so strong that the car jumped over the other side of road and rammed into the santro which was on its way to pune from lonavala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All the four family members in santro car and three youths in swift car died on the spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The injured were rushed to the hospital in an ambulance by the emergency response team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The four deceased from the family have been identified as Rajiv Jagannath Bahirat (52), his wife Sonali (46), daughter Janhvi (20) and Rajiv\u2019s father Jagannath Bahirat (83). The other three deceased were Sanjiv Mohan Kushwah (17), Krishna Ramesh Shirkat (22) and Nikhil Balaji Sarode (20).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The three injured people have been identified as Nikhil\u2019s brother Pratik Sarode (18), Akash Madne (17), Rohit Kad (16).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, their condition seems to be critical but they are being treated for multiple injuries, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The collision took place at Karla Phata near Lonavala. The accident led to major traffic jams on both the sides of the highway for over two hours.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven people died and three critically injured after two cars collided with each other on the Old Pune-Mumbai Highway near Lonavala on Sunday. The collision happened between a swift car, coming from pune to Lonawala and a Santro car, coming from lonavala to Pune. According to the police sources, the driver of swift who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[3652,3650,3651],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300411,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300409\/revisions\/300411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}