Pune: A woman died while her husband and two others were injured when a mini truck hit a couple of two-wheelers, an autorickshaw and a car on the Karve Road stretch from Karishma Chowk to Paud Phata around 9.15pm on Sunday. The Alankar police identified the deceased as Geetanjali Amrale (34), a resident of Vivekanand Colony at Shashtrinagar .
Her husband, Shrikant Sambhaji Amrale , and two others, Sahil Pite (27) and Madhuri Dahotre, were injured and taken to a hospital. Amrale is an office-bearer of a political party’s Kothrud unit, police said on Monday. “Doctors in the hospital declared Pite’s condition as critical.
Dahotre’s condition is stable,” senior inspector Sunita Rokade of the Alankar police told TOI. “Shrikant and Geetanjali were on their way to Paud Phata from Karishma Chowk when the mini truck hit their scooter from the rear. Shrikant, who was riding the scooter, was injured.
Geetanjali died on the spot after falling from the two-wheeler,” the officer said. “Before hitting the scooter, the mini truck, which was on its way to Lakdi Pul from Warje, had hit an autorickshaw driven by Somnath Salunkhe in front of Kimaya restaurant. It then veered to the right and again to the left to hit Pite’s bike,” Rokade said.
“Later, it hit Amrale’s scooter in front of Raj restaurant and finally collided with a car under Veer Savarkar flyover at Paud Phata before coming to a halt. Dahotre was riding pillion on Pite’s bike,” she added. The police arres.
