India, July 29 -- A late-night joyride along the scenic Palm Beach Road nearly ended in tragedy for two young men when their Mercedes-Benz lost control and overturned in the early hours of Monday, leaving one of them critically injured.

The crash took place around 2 am near Vashi when 20-year-old Mohammad Salman Sheikh, a resident of Sector 50, Seawoods, was allegedly speeding in his father's white Mercedes-Benz (MH-02-FN-1206), with his 19-year-old friend Mohammad Sufiyan Sheikh in the passenger seat.

"They were heading toward Vashi for a drive when the vehicle hit a slippery patch. Salman lost control of the steering, crashed through the divider, and the car somersaulted into the opposite lane toward Belapur," said senior inspector Br...