A 59-year-old man, who was driving back home to Thane from Bandra on Sunday, lost control of his vehicle on the Eastern Express Highway and crashed into seven other vehicles. While he escaped with minor injuries, his wife was seriously injured and his car totalled. Cops, who have booked the driver, said preliminary investigations revealed that he was drunk at the time.

The police said Nitin Gulve, a resident of Paachpakhadi, Thane, and his wife, Anjali, had gone to meet his mother at Bandra on Sunday in his car. While returning home around 6.05 pm, he had reached the Navghar flyover, where he suddenly lost control of his car and started crashing into vehicles. "The first car he hit was a Scorpio, and he then hit six smaller cars. While the other cars had minor damages, Gulve's own car was completely crushed," an officer from Navghar police station said. "When his car hit the seventh vehicle and stopped, other motorists stopped their vehicles and came to Gulve's aid," the officer added.