4/07/2017
PUNE: After
seven persons died when their mini bus collided with a water tanker on
Pune-Ahmednagar road yesterday, the police have arrested the driver of the
water tanker. Those who died, including two women, were software professionals
working with different IT firms in the city, senior police officer Sarjerao
Patil said.
In the evening, six persons died on the spot and seven others were injured when the private mini-bus in which they were travelling collided with the water tanker near Lonikand village, about 40 km from. One of the injured persons died at a hospital, Inspector Patil said.
The victims were returning from a friend's wedding in
Ahmednagar district. Patil said when the mini bus reached near Lonikand, the
water tanker coming from the opposite direction veered off the road. It then
rammed the road divider, jumped on the other side of the road and collided with
the bus.
"It seems that the water tanker was being driven in a
rash and negligent manner. The tanker driver apparently lost control over the
vehicle which then collided with the bus," he said.
The tanker also hit a car which was behind the bus, he said.
The tanker driver, Krushna Kitarwad, 22, was arrested in the early hours today,
the police said. Kitarwad has been booked for rash and negligent driving and
also for offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, under which the
imprisonment may extend up to 10 years.
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