Speeding MUV kills biker, injures 3 in Navi Mumbai crash

A 36-year-old motorcyclist was killed and three autorickshaw passengers were injured after a speeding MUV driven by a 61-year-old man hit them on the Sion-Panvel highway near Uran Phata in Navi Mumbai on Sunday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Anand Namdev Kadam, a chauffeur from Gothivali. The injured passengers, Ruchita Ravikant Talekar (44), Manisha Atul Parekh (52), and Atul Hasmukhram Parekh (52), were travelling from Kharghar to Nerul.

The driver, Hemant Ramesh Thanekar, a flower vendor from Thane West, lost control after the first collision and hit three more vehicles before stopping, the Times of India reports. The Free Press Journal adds that the vehicle was an Innova and that Thanekar has been arrested. An FIR was registered under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Motor Vehicles Act for rash and negligent driving causing death. The biker was declared dead at Dr D Y Patil Hospital in Nerul, where the injured are being treated.