9 died, 1 injured in a car accident at Maharashtra

Accident took place on the Goa- Mumbai highway...

Nine people along with a child met with an accident in the early hours of 19 January 2023 when a car collided with a speeding truck on the Goa Mumbai highway in the Raigad district of Maharashtra.

According to the superintendent of police Somnath Gharge, the accident took place at 4.45 Am at Repoli village in Raigad district located 130 km away from Mumbai. They further added that the victim’s family was going in a van to Gahagar in the Ratnagiri district.

The victim includes three women and five men with a four-year-old girl child after getting the information police rushed to the spot to rescue them and sent them to the nearest hospital in Mangaon. The girl child was taken under treatment and nine people who died on the spot were sent to the government post-mortem.

The reason of the accident was not yet confirmed.