Maharashtra: Four killed in road accident after falling from flyover in Jalgaon

NASHIK: Four persons seated atop two pick-up vehicles died after falling from a height of at least 40 feet from a flyover in Nashirabad, Jalgaon district, when their vehicles collided against an oncoming truck at around 6.45am on Wednesday.
Eleven other persons escaped with minor injuries, who are being treated in a private hospital in Nashirabad and Jalgaon civil hospital.
API Anil More of the Nashirabad police station said the accident took place on the railway flyover in Nashirabad.
There were a total 15 people travelling by two pick-up vehicles to a market in Savda in Faizpur to sell goats. Some people were seated inside the pick-up cabins and some on their roofs.
At around 6.45am, a truck speeding towards the Jalgaon city direction collided against the two pick-ups, moving in tandem in the opposite direction towards the Bhusawal side.
In the collision, some of the victims who were seated atop the roof fell down from the flyover. API Anil More said that the height from which the victims fell was at least 40 feet.
They died on the spot. The other victims escaped with minor injuries and are admitted in Nashirabad and at the Jalgaon civil hospital.
The Nashirabad police are in the process of registering an offence against the truck driver.