The damaged container and motorcycle were removed from the road with the help of traffic police. PIC/TMC
A 20-year-old man was killed on the spot on Thursday morning after his motorcycle met with an accident involving a container truck near the Kharegaon bridge on the Mumbai-Nashik Road in Thane.
According to information received by the disaster management control room at 5.48 am, the accident occurred near the Kharegaon toll naka when the victim, riding a motorcycle from Thane towards Nashik, lost control of his vehicle and fell under the rear tyres of a container that was passing close by.
Akash Chandra Pujari was a resident of Dahisar in Mumbai. He suffered severe injuries after coming under the container's tyres and was declared dead at the spot.
Traffic police personnel, disaster management staff with a pickup vehicle, fire brigade officials with a high-rise fire tender and two rescue vehicles, and an ambulance rushed to the scene. The container driver fled the spot following the accident and is currently unidentified, police said.
The body was later shifted to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa, Thane, for further legal formalities in the presence of traffic police officers.
Police said Pujari had left home around 4 am on his motorcycle to travel to Trimbakeshwar in Nashik with friends for temple darshan. At the time of the accident, he was travelling alone.
The damaged container and motorcycle were removed from the road with the help of traffic police, following which traffic on the Mumbai-Nashik Road was restored.
The accident had led to traffic congestion on the stretch for about an hour.
