Dhule, 25 May (HS): Six people died on Monday morning in

a road accident involving three vehicles. The accident occurred in Lalit Ghat

in Maharashtra’s Dhule district on the Mumbai-Agra Highway. A private travel

bus, truck carrying sand and a car collided. Besides six death, 28 travellers

were injured in the accident.

Preliminary

report suggest that sand dumper lost control over the vehicle and veered off to

the wrong side of the road to hit vehicles coming from the opposite side

including a bus and a car following the bus. Five people including three on the

bus died on the accident site. One employee at the Toll Booth also died in the

accident.

Villagers,

Highway Police and employees of a toll booth rushed to help the passengers and

rushed them to a hospital in Dhule. The death toll is likely to be higher.

The toll booth

employees closed the booth and launched an agitation demanding insurance of the

employees. They also demanded financial support to the family of the booth

employee who died in the accident.

The agitation by

the booth employees following the accident halted traffic on the highway.

Police removed

the vehicles using crane and convinced the booth employees to remove the

traffic block.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar