India, March 7 -- A 27-year-old nurse died and four others were injured in a deadly head-on collision between a speeding SUV pickup truck and an autorickshaw on Wednesday evening on the Palghar-Manor highway. The driver of the jeep fled the scene and remains at large.

The incident occurred around 7:45 pm near Shelvali village, approximately four kilometres east of Palghar town. The autorickshaw, carrying the deceased and the injured, was struck by a Bolero pickup vehicle, which also hit an oncoming two-wheeler.

The deceased has been identified as Ujjwala Ramesh Jadhav, a nurse employed at a private hospital in Boisar. She was returning home to Devkhop when the accident occurred. Two of the five seriously injured victims were rushed to t...