PUNE: Five people, including three women, from Mira Road in Thane district, travelling by an SUV died when the four-wheeler first hit and then jumped over a median on the Pune-Mumbai highway and crashed into a container truck travelling in the opposite corridor at 8am on Sunday at Shilatane village near Lonavla.
The accident caused a major traffic jam on the Pune-to-Mumbai corridor of the highway. It took almost an hour for the traffic authorities to restore normal vehicular movement.