A bad accident happened on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on Friday evening. It was a collision between three trucks near the new Missing Link section. This accident was very sad because two people died and two others got badly hurt. The accident caused a traffic jam on the expressway.
The accident happened around 5 PM near Khopoli in Raigad district. A big truck that was carrying paint lost control while going down a slope near the Missing Link tunnel. This truck crashed into two big trucks that were moving ahead. The crash was so strong that all three trucks turned over and blocked lanes of the expressway.
People who saw the accident said it was a scary scene. There were broken pieces of vehicles. Paint all over the road. Some people stopped to help those who were trapped before the rescue teams came. Two people died there because of how bad the accident was. Two others were badly hurt and were taken to hospitals near there for emergency treatment.
The accident made it very hard for people to move on the expressway for two hours. There were lines of vehicles going towards Mumbai. The authorities had to stop people from moving on some parts of the expressway so that they could remove the trucks that had turned over and clean up the things on the road.
The police said the accident happened near the Missing Link section of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. This new section is a project that was started this month to make it easier and faster to travel between Mumbai and Pune. The new section has advanced tunnels and high bridges to avoid the route that had many accidents and to make the expressway less crowded.
The accident on Friday made people worry again about big vehicles moving too fast on the expressway. The traffic police said that with better roads people driving badly trucks that are too heavy and vehicles that are not working properly are still big dangers especially on slopes near tunnels.
The people who helped in the rescue the highway patrol and the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation worked together to make the traffic move again before it got late. There were videos on media that showed many vehicles stuck and people trying to remove the damaged trucks from the fast lane.
This was not the accident that happened near the Missing Link section on Friday. There was another accident near there where a private bus crashed into vehicles making the traffic even worse on the side of the expressway that goes to Mumbai.
The Mumbai-Pune Expressway is one of the most dangerous highways in India even with all the work being done to make it better. The authorities have asked drivers those driving big vehicles to be careful and not drive too fast especially in areas with tunnels and slopes.
The police are trying to figure out what caused the accident on Friday. They are looking at whether the vehicles had problems if someone was driving fast or if the driver was too tired. They are also looking at videos from cameras, on the expressway and data from the vehicles to understand what happened.
