India, June 22 -- A night out to celebrate a friend's birthday took a fatal turn in the early hours of Sunday when a BMW convertible travelling at a speed of 251 kmph crashed on the under-construction Mumbai-Vadodara Highway near Badlapur, killing two occupants and critically injuring a third.

The impact was so severe that the two-seater BMW Z-series convertible was reduced to a mangled heap of metal. According to the police, the occupants were thrown out of the vehicle as it flipped repeatedly after hitting a divider. The bodies of the deceased were flung nearly 500 metres from the crash site, while severed body parts were found scattered 50 to 100 metres away.

The deceased were identified as Yogesh Kishan Negi, 26, a resident of Badla...