India, Sept. 25 -- Two people were killed in separate road accidents in Raigad on Wednesday. While the first accident was a collision of a speeding tempo and a tanker, resulting in one death, the second was the death of a pedestrian after being hit by a motorcycle.

According to the police, the first incident occurred on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway near the Patalganga River bridge on Wednesday afternoon when a speeding tempo attempted to overtake a tanker. "The tempo rammed into the tanker from the right side, causing the tanker to overturn from the bridge," said Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Pawar, adding that both the vehicles were extensively damaged.

While the driver of the tempo, Ahmed Mulas Haider Alam, a resident of Kailasgad i...