A 72-year-old man crashed his Hyundai Santro into 4 bikes earlier than colliding with a parked automobile in Kolhapur district in Maharashtra on Monday.
Three individuals died and 6 others have been injured within the highway accident, that occurred at Cyber Chowk. The driving force of the Santro and a retired Professional Vice-Chancellor of Shivaji College Kolhapur, Vasant M Chavan, have been amongst these lifeless. The horrific incident was captured on CCTV.
In line with IANS, the accident occurred when Chavan’s rushing automobile hit a minimum of three bikes at Cyber Chowk round 2:30 p.m. on Monday. Officers consider Chavan, who was 72 and presumably unwell, misplaced management of his automobile, which was travelling from Rajarampuri Highway, inflicting the crash on the busy intersection.
Witnesses and CCTV footage revealed that the opposite two victims have been thrown a number of meters into the air earlier than touchdown fatally. The collision was so extreme that Chavan died in his automobile because it subsequently rammed into one other stationary automobile, simply two days after his 72nd birthday.
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The accident injured a minimum of three to 4 individuals broken a number of autos, knocked over visitors barricades, and partially broken a visitors sign. The injured have been taken to C.T. Hospital and C.P.R. Hospital, the place their situation was reported as ‘critical’.
It has been reported that the motive force concerned within the accident, was unwell. Police are questioning his family members and investigating whether or not he had any underlying well being circumstances.
Considered one of Kolhapur’s foremost thoroughfares, the Cyber Chowk is flanked on one facet by Rajaram Faculty and Shivaji College Kolhapur, and on the opposite by quite a lot of different private and non-private instructional institutions.
Chavan had been affiliated with IIM-Ahmedabad, served as a former faculty principal, and was the previous Director of Bharatiya Vidyapeeth’s establishments in Kolhapur and Delhi. He was Professional-VC of SUK from April 2001 to March 2004.