A 59-year-old woman was killed and her husband, a former Ranji player, was injured when their car rammed into a truck on the Samruddhi Expressway in Buldhana district of <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/maharashtra-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Maharashtra</a> on Tuesday, police said.
The accident occurred at Kalyana village in Mehkar taluka when Praveen Hingnikar (65), a former Ranji player and <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/vidarbha-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Vidarbha Cricket Association</a>'s pitch curator, and his wife were returning to Nagpur from Pune.
A police official said the truck was parked along a stretch of the highway near the village when the car hit it from behind.
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Hingnikar's wife was killed due to the impact and he is undergoing treatment at a private hospital, police said.
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A police official said the truck was parked along a stretch of the highway near the village when the car hit it from behind

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