A catastrophic vehicular tragedy on Mumbai’s high-speed Coastal Road claimed three lives and left another youth critically wounded in the early hours of Sunday. Police reported that an overspeeding luxury sedan carrying four college students careened out of control along a northern flyover ramp, smashed through structural crash barriers, and plummeted seventy-five feet onto an arterial underpass below.
Emergency rescue squads and traffic control personnel rushed to the mangled wreckage, using hydraulic cutters to extract the trapped occupants before transporting them to Nair Hospital. Attending trauma surgeons pronounced three victims dead on arrival due to severe polytrauma and internal hemorrhaging, while the fourth passenger remains in critical intensive care.
Preliminary accident reconstruction investigations revealed that the vehicle was travelling at more than 140 kilometers per hour in wet road conditions when the driver lost control near a high-speed curve. Municipal highway authorities announced immediate safety reviews to reinforce steel impact barriers and install automated radar speed enforcement cameras along elevated highway sectors.
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