A 32-year-old private company employee died on the spot, while his wife and two-year-old daughter were injured when the motorbike they were travelling on skidded after hitting a pothole in suburban Kurla, a police official said on Thursday.

The accident took place on Wednesday night, when the deceased, Shadab Yunus Khan, a resident of Mumbra in Thane district, was heading towards Pydhoni in Mumbai along with his wife and daughter, he said.