Massive crash on Mumbai-Pune expressway kills 3 IIT Bombay students

As per reports, the students, after watching a movie late at night in Mumbai, drove to Lonavala to catch the sunrise, but were killed in a crash involving a container truck.

A shocking incident took place on March 19 on the Mumbai-Pune expressway, where a massive crash killed three IIT Bombay students. They had gone to a movie in Mumbai and decided to take a spontaneous ride to Lonavala to catch the sunrise. However, the journey ended in tragedy on Thursday on their way back.

Three IIT Bombay students were killed in a car crash on the Mumbai-Pune expressway.

Three IIT Bombay students died when their SUV lost control during an overtaking attempt by a truck near the Panvel exit on the Mumbai-Pune expressway on Thursday. Police are now checking the CCTV footage to identify the container truck involved and are examining whether overspeeding or driver fatigue played a role in the crash. The students were found trapped inside the mangled wreckage of their car after it rammed into a container truck on the Mumbai-Pune expressway around 8.35 am. High traffic police had to use cutters to pull them out before rushing them to MGM Hospital in Kamothe, where they were declared dead.

More on the tragic death of the three IIT Bombay students by accident.

A bus driver first reported the accident. Reports say the students were travelling in a Volkswagen Polo that crashed into the rear of a container truck while attempting to overtake it near the Bhatan tunnel on the expressway. The accident’s impact was so severe that the car flipped several times and was then reduced to a heap of twisted metal. An FIR has been registered against an unidentified person based on a complaint filed by Hitesh Kumar Meena, another student travelling in a different car.

The three students were part of a group of six IIT-B students travelling in a rented Volkswagen Polo. The group had spent the night watching a movie in Mumbai’s BKC before heading to Lonavala for a sunrise drive. The crash occurred about 1.5 km after the Bhatan tunnel as they were returning to Mumbai.