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Pothole trips biker, truck crushes him in Bhiwandi

BHIWANDI: A 46-year-old biker died after he was crushed under a truck in Bhiwandi on Sunday afternoon. Residents around Sonale village, where the mishap took place, said that the man, Satish Thakre, a Kalyan resident, died after his two-wheeler skidded after it passed over a pothole .


The police have booked the unidentified truck driver with 'causing death due to negligence'.

They said the truck had dashed the rear of the bike which led to the accident .

Locals who claimed to have witnessed the mishap told the police that when Thakre's bike moved over the "potholed patch", it moved in a rumbling manner and the rider fell down. The locals also said that a "speeding" truck that was behind Thakre's motorbike ran over him and he died on the spot.

The locals alerted officials of Bhiwandi taluka police station who reached the spot and sent the body to IGM Hospital for a post-mortem.

Assistant inspector Sachin Bhatt said that their preliminary probe has shown that the motorcycle "skidded after it ran over a pothole and the truck that was behind hit the bike".

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