Thousands attended the funeral for the seven friends at Vile Parle today. Pic/ Data Kumbhar

More than 4,000 people gathered at Shivaji Nagar in Vile Parle on Thursday morning to pay their last respects to seven young men from the neighbourhood who died in a road accident on Wednesday while they were driving from Mumbai to Goa for a quick getaway. The lone survivor, who was brought to Sion Hospital for treatment. "My son died because they were trying to save a person coming towards them on a cycle,” wailed Pandu Todkar, deceased Kedar Todkar's father.