Indore, Aug 15 (PTI) An 18-year-old woman was killed and six others were injured in a multi-vehicle collision in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone district on Thursday, police said.
The brakes of a wheat-laden truck failed while negotiating a slope in Ganesh Ghat on the Agra-Mumbai national highway, said an official.
The truck hit the rear side of a container vehicle, and both caught fire.
The container vehicle then hit six cars and a bus ahead, said inspector Pankaj Tiwari of Maheshwar police station.
While the fire was put out, seven injured persons were rushed to a hospital in Indore.
One of them, bus passenger Riya Jadhav (18), succumbed to her injuries.
Jadhav had stuck her head out of a window to vomit when she sustained fatal injuries, the police official said.
The stretch of the highway where the pile-up took place is known to be accident-prone and called a “black spot,” inspector Tiwari said. PTI HWP LAL KRK
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