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Two persons were killed and three others injured in a freak accident that involved an explosion in a moving chemical tanker and subsequent pile-up of three vehicles on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway today, causing massive disruption of traffic for hours.

Eleven people, including a five- year-old girl, were killed and 17 others injured when a vehicle collided head-on with a bus on Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway here in the wee hours on Monday, police said.

The body of a woman, in her early 20s, was found in the bushes on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Virar on Thursday morning.

Three men riding triple seats were killed on the spot when their motorbike was hit by a truck on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad national highway at Charoti in Dahanu taluka of Palghar district.

In a second major accident in a month on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad national highway, four persons travelling in a car died on the spot in a head-on collision with a luxury bus in Charoti in Dahanu taluka of Palghar district early Tuesday. The driver of the bus and three passengers sustained minor injuries.

The skeleton of a woman was found on Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway at Sativali in Vasai. The body was placed in a gunny bag and dumped at an isolated spot.

CM Eknath Shinde on Wednesday revealed that as per latest 2021 survey, Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway stretch in Palghar district has 11 accident-prone black spots. This year, the stretch saw 109 human deaths in 271 mishaps from April to October.

If you are going to drive through the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway early next week gear up to be caught in a traffic jam.

The heavy trains over two days triggered a landslide on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway at Varai village near Manor on Tuesday morning, affecting traffic for over three hours.

Presence of strong dividers at Kasa on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, where Wednesday's mishap took place, could have saved the passengers from the deadly impact the chemical container had on their bus, said sources in the highway police.

Union minister for road transport and highways on Friday said that cement concretisation of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad national highway will be undertaken soon.

The apex body of transporters has demanded that state government should expedite setting up of emergency trauma centres, restrooms for drivers and affordable foodcourts at every 25 kms on the national highways.

A truck was charred in fire on Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Tuesday morning.

Three men travelling on a motorbike died after their two-wheeler collided with a multi-utility vehicle (MUV) on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Thursday, an official said. The victims were on their way from Harsul in Nashik district to Sanjan in Gujarat when they met with the accident around 11.30am.

Four men on two bikes allegedly made away with Rs 50 lakh from a textile firm SUV at Manor on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway on Tuesday.

The loss of lives and damage to property after the Dahanu tanker explosion would have been lower if fire tenders had been stationed at strategic locations along the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway. A fire engine from Gujarat arrived at the spot after nearly two and a half hours on Saturday.

Fourteen persons were killed a little after dawn on Wednesday when a chemical tanker jumped the divider on a curvy section of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway at Kasa, about 120km from here, and rammed into a luxury bus packed with families on the last leg of their journey to Mumbai.

Taking cognizance of the recent road mishap which led to the death of the former chairman of Tata Group, Cyrus Mistry, Geneva-based International Road Federation (IRF) is set to conduct a road safety audit on the accident-prone section of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, to identify and remove deficiencies on the section.

Four people were killed after a car collided with a luxury bus on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Dahanu area of Palghar district on Tuesday, police said. The car was en route to Mumbai from Gujarat when the driver lost control of the vehicle and rammed into the bus coming from the opposite side, as per Palghar police.

The accident took place near Chaori check post on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway at around 3pm, officials in the district disaster control room said.

Eight people were killed, most of them charred beyond recognition, after a speeding luxury bus collided with a diesel tanker near Manor on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway early Wednesday, the third such mishap on NH-8 in the last 10 years.

Two motorcyclists were killed and a pillion rider injured in separate incidents on the Mumbai- Ahmedabad highway on Sunday morning, police said.

A gas tanker overturned on Mumbai-Ahmedabad national highway in Palghar district on Thursday.