India, May 4 -- A speeding Mercedes car collided with a motorcycle on the Wadgaon Bridge stretch of the Pune-Bengaluru highway early Saturday morning leaving the pillion rider dead and the rider injured.

According to police, the occupants in the four-wheeler, including the driver, were in an inebriated state at the time of the accident.

The accident occurred around 4:30 am, police said, adding the four occupants - all postgraduate students of a computer science course at a prominent education institute in Pimpri-Chinchwad - in the Mercedes were returning home at Nigdi.

The accused have been identified as Shubham Rajendra Bhosale, 27 (driver), Vednat Indra Singh Rajput, 28, Shreyas Ramkrishna Solankhi, 25, and Nikhil Milind Ranawade, 26...