Two killed as BMW crashes into road divider, overturns in Maha district
Badlapur, June 22 -- Two people were killed and another sustained serious injuries after a convertible BMW car, allegedly being driven at a speed of over 250km/hr, crashed into a road divider on the under-construction Mumbai-Vadodara Highway in Badlapur, and overturned multiple times, police said on Sunday.
The impact of the accident was such that the bodies of the victims were dismembered and the Z series BMW car was completely mangled, they said.
The deceased were identified as Yogesh Kishan Negi, 24, and Rebecca Babu Jacob, 22, while the injured passenger has been identified as Angad Gill, 26. Gill and Negi are residents of Badlapur, while Rebecca was from Bandra. Gill sustained severe injuries and has been admitted to the ICU at Fortis Hospital in Kalyan, police said.
Officers said the three friends were on a night out to celebrate the Negi's 24th birthday on Sunday.
According to the police, the incident took place at around 2 am near Eranjad in Badlapur.
Kishore Shinde, Senior Police Inspector at the Badlapur West Police Station, told HT, "We have sent the bodies of the deceased to the government hospital in Ulhasnagar for a post-mortem examination. Since the car was a convertible with an open hood, the occupants were thrown out upon impact, causing fatal injuries. We still do not know who was driving the vehicle at the time of the accident."...
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