Overview
- Police recovered and identified all six victims late Thursday after tracing their route from missing-person reports using phone data and CCTV.
- Investigators are examining overspeeding, mechanical failure, low visibility and slippery road conditions after the Thar fell roughly 400–500 feet off a sharp curve.
- Mangaon and Raigad police, disaster management teams and local trekkers conducted a difficult retrieval, with some post-mortems performed at or near the site.
- An FIR has been registered under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and the Motor Vehicles Act as forensic and crash-cause inquiries continue.
- Separate crashes were reported this week, including four dead and three injured on Ambernath flyover in Thane, where a claimed driver heart attack remains unconfirmed, and fatalities in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli ditch fall.