India, March 10 -- A three-vehicle collision on the Eastern Express Highway (EEH) near Cadbury Bridge in Thane (West) on Sunday left multiple people injured and caused significant traffic disruption. The accused driver of a dumper, which collided first, has fled.

According to an official from the Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC), at 1.26am, a driver of a Tata dumper, carrying soil from Mulund Check Naka to Kasheli dumping ground, lost control of the vehicle. This dumper crashed into a Tata 710 Eicher truck, which was moving ahead of him. The impact caused the truck to collide with a nearby Tata Punch car, where a family was travelling towards their house in Anand Nagar, Ghodbunder Road.

The series of collisions left two passenge...