India, June 26 -- A routine inspection of a second-hand car ended in a freak accident on Thursday when a 25-year-old car dealer died after the vehicle's steering wheel airbag deployed suddenly and struck him in the neck on Mira Road.

The deceased, identified as Mohit Suresh Soni, a resident of Tiara Hills in Mira Road, was inspecting the car before accepting it for sale to a third party when the incident occurred near Pleasant Park in Kashimira on Thursday afternoon.

According to Rajendra Kamble, senior police inspector of Kashimira police station, Soni had pulled over by the roadside to examine the vehicle when the steering wheel airbag unexpectedly deployed. As the airbag inflated, its cover slammed into the right side of his neck wit...