Three teachers and the driver of the vehicle they were traveling in were killed after their “high speeding” car rammed into a tractor near Ausa in Maharashtra’s Latur district early Friday morning.

The deceased were travelling from Shivali to Ausa on the Tuljapur-Ausa highway after having dinner, an official told newswire PTI. The impact of the collision was so severe that the car's front portion broke off and was thrown 30 feet away, he said.

The deceased were identified as Sanjay Randive (41), resident of Vilegaon in Deoni tehsil and headmaster of Kharosa Kendriya School in Ausa tehsil; Jayprakash Birajdar (45), resident of Kharosa; Mahebub Pathan (45), resident of Killari, and car driver Rajesab Bagwan (34). Police, health workers and local people managed to remove the mangled bodies from the car around 4:30 am with the help of a crane

In another incident, two persons were killed on the spot after a tempo collided with a trailer truck in Boisar area of Palghar district on Friday, police said

The accident took place at Warangade village on Boisar-Chillar road as the loaded tempo was proceeding from Gujarat to Mumbai and the truck was coming from the opposite direction.

Two persons in the tempo including the driver were killed on the spot, said an official of Boisar police station

Meanwhile, the Maharashtra government, during the ongoing winter session of the state legislature in Nagpur, disclosed that 147 individuals lost their lives in road accidents in Mumbai from January to June 2023. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde presented these statistics in a written response to a query raised by Congress legislator Ashok Chavan, a report by news agency PTI stated