A truck driver died after his vehicle plunged around 15 metres off a flyover before overturning.
Dramatic footage shows the truck travelling along the flyover before suddenly swerving out of control.
The deceased has been identified as 56-year-old Rajubhai Bhanderia.
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The crash happened on the Musalgaon bypass along the Nashik-Shirdi road in Sinnar taluka, India, on Funday afternoon.
He was transporting industrial goods from Nashik to Shirdi when the accident happened at around 3.15pm, as reported by Need To Know.
Police said Bhanderia, from Rajkot in Gujarat, had been travelling alone and there were no eyewitnesses to explain what caused him to lose control.
Assistant inspector Sunil Badgujar, of the Sinnar MIDC police station, said: “The driver died on the spot.”
Badgujar added that a preliminary inspection found no apparent defects on the stretch of road.
“The road was in good condition, with no potholes or other visible road hazards that might have distracted the driver,” he said.
Police have registered a case of accidental death and launched an investigation into the incident.
The Nashik-Sinnar corridor sees heavy movement of freight vehicles every day as large volumes of industrial goods are transported between the MIDC industrial hubs in Nashik and Sinnar.
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