Eighteen people were injured in an accident involving a container, a car, a state transport bus and a motorcycle near Shindewadi on Pune-Satara Highway this afternoon, police said.
Incidentally, the accident took place hours after Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari, in a speech at an event in Pune, expressed concern about delay in the ongoing work of widening of a 59 km stretch of the same road.
An officer of Rajgad police station said the accident took place at around 1.30 pm when the driver of a container truck rammed into an SUV from behind, and went on to hit an ST bus.
The bus bumped into a motorcycle ahead.
Thirteen passengers in the bus, two people riding the motorcycle and three occupants of the SUV were injured, one of them critically. All were taken to a nearby hospital.
Gadkari had conceded in his speech that the widening work on the Pune-Satara Highway had hit roadblocks, but assured that it would be completed within six months.
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