India, Sept. 18 -- A 25-year-old truck driver was killed and his cleaner seriously injured after their truck lost control and plunged off a bridge on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway near Tembhode village, early Tuesday morning.

According to the preliminary report, the accident occurred around 6.00 am when the driver, identified as Amjad Ali Abbas Ali Makandar of Gulbarga, Karnataka, was transporting a truckload of jowar sacks to Mumbai.

Police said Amjad was allegedly driving rashly and negligently when the vehicle rammed into the roadside iron crash barrier before falling off the bridge. The impact reportedly killed Amjad on the spot, while his cleaner, identified as Mira Patel Chand Patel, 45, also from Gulbarga, sustained multiple fractur...