As many as 27 people were killed, and 29 injured, on the notorious Mumbai-Pune Expressway shortly after midnight on May 28 this year. The victims were part of a wedding party returning to Pune from Ghatkopar in Mumbai in two mini-buses. The vehicles were stationary. One of them had a punctured tyre and the other was throwing light on it from its headlamps to enable the driver to change tyres. A speeding truck came from behind and hit it, causing it to dash against the one ahead of it. The victims died as a result of the collisions.

This was reportedly the worst accident on the expressway since it opened in 2000. So many lives snuffed out because the drivers involved were careless. One of them was obviously speeding and the other two had parked their vehicles on the carriageway — not at a safe distance away from the oncoming traffic.