Four men from Pune district were killed and two others injured after the driver of the SUV they were travelling in lost control, hit a divider, and overturned before crashing into a truck on the Pune-Satara lane of National Highway-48 in Maharashtra’s Satara district early Tuesday.
The police said the group of friends was on its way to the Mahabaleshwar hill station in Satara when the accident occurred around 1.10 am at Shirwal in Satara’s Khandala taluka.
“They had started from Pune in the night,” an officer said.
The four men who were killed, all residents of Kamshet in Maval taluka, have been identified as Vedant Arjun Waringe, Sonling Dhirendra Thakur, and Aditya Balasaheb Garud, all 19, and Nikhil Balu Raut, 20.
Dikshit Dayanand Pujari and Mayur Hanumant Shinde, both 20, were injured in the accident. They have been admitted to a hospital for treatment.
Officers from the local police station and personnel from the Highway Police Assistance Centre at Sarola rushed to the spot after receiving information about the accident.
The damaged SUV and the truck were removed from the road with a crane, and traffic on the highway was subsequently restored, the State Highway Police said.
Officers at the Shirwal police station said they are taking further legal action in connection with the accident.
