The Pune police on Friday filed a case against the owner (as well as the deceased driver and cleaner) of a truck involved in a horrific crash at Pune's Navale Bridge that has killed at least eight people and injured 14 others.
According to the police, the truck, headed for Mumbai, was speeding along the Navale Bridge area of the Pune-Bangalore Highway on Thursday evening, when it lost control—allegedly due to brake failure—and crashed into 10-15 vehicles. A probe is already underway to determine the nature of the crash in detail.
#WATCH | Maharashtra | At least six people were killed after a container truck lost control and rammed into multiple vehicles near Navale Bridge on the Pune-Bengaluru Highway. Following the collision, 2–3 heavy vehicles caught fire. Rescue operations are underway: DCP Sambhaji… pic.twitter.com/l7W6qFuQLK
— ANI (@ANI) November 13, 2025
After receiving information about the accident, the Pune city police and Pune Fire Brigade rushed to the spot, by which time a number of people had already burned down.
Eyewitnesses say the worst affected in the collision was a car that had got sandwiched between the speeding truck and another container truck on the same route.
“I saw the accident and rushed to the spot. I heard the victims in the truck and the car crying for help. But the vehicles caught fire and I was helpless," said Sanjay Solanki, who runs a shop near Navale Bridge, as per an Indian Express report.
Most of the casualties in the accident were also in this car, thought to be a CNG-fuelled car that exploded after it was crushed.
'Black spot' status
This is not the first major accident taking place at the Navale Bridge, which, along with an adjacent location called Selfie Point, are called 'black spots' on the transport ministry's Integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD).
According to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways of India, a 'black spot' is a short stretch of road (about 500m in length) identified as a high-risk area due to at least five major accidents taking place there over a three-year period.
Exactly three years ago, at least 48 cars were damaged after a truck crashed into them—similar circumstances to the Thursday crash.
#WATCH | Maharashtra: 6 people were injured in an accident at Navale bridge on the Pune-Bengaluru highway in Pune last night where a truck lost control & rammed into several vehicles stuck in traffic on the bridge, no casualties were reported so far
— ANI (@ANI) November 21, 2022
Latest visuals from the spot pic.twitter.com/fp3umtCVwN
The November 2022 crash also sparked a discussion about the steep slope in the area, on which the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has now been instructed to conduct a scientific study, so that its steepness can be reduced.
In January this year, two youths going home after a party were killed after their car lost control on this slope and hit a bus from behind.
Just months later (in May), a young man on a two-wheeler was killed in an accident here after a car crashed into his bike.
