Overview
- Police say the container truck’s brakes likely failed after the Katraj tunnel, setting off a chain collision involving roughly 13–20 vehicles around 5:30–6 pm.
- A car was crushed between two container trucks and all three burned, with the car’s CNG kit suspected to have exploded during the blaze.
- Officials report eight fatalities and more than a dozen injured, with several patients hospitalized and DNA assistance needed to identify some victims.
- An FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Motor Vehicles Act names driver Rustam Khan, cleaner Mushtaq Khan (both deceased) and truck owner Tahir Khan.
- Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis announced ₹5 lakh to each victim’s family, as authorities flagged the accident-prone stretch and continued technical and forensic examinations.