Pune, Jun 10 (PTI) A motorcyclist was killed after a cement mixer truck overturned and crushed his two-wheeler in Maharashtra’s Pune city shortly after midnight on Wednesday, police said.
The incident occurred around 12.30 am near a hospital at Navale Bridge in the Narhe area on the Katraj-Bavdhan route.
The cement mixer truck suddenly overturned while negotiating a turn at the Navale chowk and fell onto the motorcycle, crushing the rider underneath, officials from Narhe police station said.
The motorcyclist, identified as Rameshwar Machhindra Bhogale (31), a resident of Katraj and originally from Beed district, died on the spot, the police said.
The truck driver, Gorakh Laxman Ransure (50), sustained minor head injuries and was taken for medical treatment, they said.
The police later removed the vehicles from the spot and restored traffic movement on the stretch. PTI SPK GK
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