In Maharashtra's Gondia district, a speeding truck slammed head-on into a Bolero vehicle carrying laborers late on Monday night, killing 6 people, including a 3-year-old child, on the spot and leaving 7 others seriously injured. The crash took place on the Gondia-Balaghat state highway near Nagra village, under the jurisdiction of Gondia Rural police station, roughly 5 kilometres from Gondia city.
Families were headed to Telangana in search of work
According to police, the laborers involved in the crash belonged to different villages in the Kirnapur and Lanji tehsil areas of Madhya Pradesh's Balaghat district. They were traveling with their families toward Hyderabad in Telangana in search of work, all riding together in a single Bolero vehicle bearing registration number MP-15 T 3495. Around 11:30 pm, just as their vehicle reached near Nagra village, a truck bearing registration number MH-35 AJ-2547, coming from the Balaghat side toward Gondia, went out of control and rammed straight into the Bolero. Police said the truck was being driven at extremely high speed and recklessly.
Impact was so severe that the vehicle was torn apart, bodies freed using a gas cutter
The collision was so violent that the Bolero's structure was completely shattered, and several occupants were badly trapped in the wreckage. Hearing the loud crash, nearby villagers and passersby rushed to the spot and joined the relief effort. On being alerted, a team from Gondia Rural police also reached the scene and launched a rescue operation. Bodies trapped deep in the mangled wreckage eventually had to be cut free using a gas cutter. The injured and the deceased were rushed to the district hospital, where doctors examined them and declared 6 people dead. Among those killed was a 3-year-old child, while 7 others are being treated in hospital.
Case registered against truck driver, two officers probing the matter
Based on the statement of Rajendra Shivcharan Pandhare, an injured passenger from Piplgaon Khurd village in Balaghat district's Kirnapur tehsil, Gondia Rural police registered a case against truck driver Mohsin Khan. The 32-year-old Mohsin Khan, a resident of Gondia, has been booked under Sections 281, 106(1), 125(a) and 125(b) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023 along with Section 184 of the Motor Vehicles Act, in crime number 527/2026. Under the supervision of Police Inspector Vaibhav Pawar, Assistant Sub-Inspector Varsha Naitam is further investigating the case.
Night journeys keep exposing worker families to danger
The Gondia-Balaghat road connects Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, and many working-class families travel long distances on it in search of employment. The accident has once again highlighted the danger posed by speeding and reckless driving on this highway after dark, a risk that cost several members of one family their lives.
