E-way sees third accident in four days

19-year-old tempo driver seriously hurt in mishap near Sinhagad Institutes; vehicle's cleaner escapes with minor injuriesAu00a0tempo driver was seriously injured in an accident near the Sinhagad Institutes on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway yesterday morning. It was the third major accident on the high-speed highway in four days. The injured driver was identified as Vijay Shantaram More (19), a resident of Sangli. Another person, who worked as the cleaner in the vehicle driven by More, sustained minor injuries. A case was registered at the Lonavala rural police station, said Raju Kudle from the Khandala police station.More was rushed to the Lokmanya Hospital in Nigdi and admitted there. The Lokmanya Hospital administration said More had a fracture in his left elbow but his condition was stable. Later, More was shifted from Lokmanya to the Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital in Pimpri. According to the officer on duty at the Khandala police station, the accident occurred just ahead of the Sinhagad Institutes around 7.30 am. We reached the spot in 10 minutes. The accident victim was taken to Lokmanya Hospital in Nigdi in an ambulance. The driver had lost control over the vehicle and it turned turtle before finally crashing into the safety barricades on the highway. Luckily, it did not hit any other passing vehicle, said the officer.String of mishaps on expressway*u00a0On Thursday, around 9 am near Dhepu Gaon, Khopoli, there was an 11-vehicle pile-up. Two men from Dhankawadi were killed on the spot. * On Friday, around 10.30 am at Adoshi, an Innova rammed into a container truck, occupants of which were seriously injured. * On Sunday, around 7.30 am, at Sinhagad Institute curve, a speeding tempo lost control and somersaulted twice. The driver was seriously injured and the cleaner sustained minor injuries.