Drunk driver kills 40-year-old man, injures wife and daughter after crash on Palm Beach Road; Accused arrested

Navigate Mumbai: A 40-year-old Airoli man died while his wife and daughter were critical after a drunken man driving his SUV crashed into the car the family was traveling in on Palm Beach Road. The accident took place around 3.30 am on Thursday morning near Sarsole junction, Nerul, when a speeding Mahindra Thar collided with a Renault Kwid car traveling from Belapur to Airoli.

The accident resulted in the death of Manish Shivaji Pednekar (40), who was driving the Renault Kwid car, while his wife Sneha (34) and their 4-year-old daughter Ananya were seriously injured. After the accident, the driver of the Thar, Omkar Vijay More (26), fled the scene but was arrested by Nerul police later that morning.

Drunk driver causes fatal crash on Palm Beach Road; man killed, wife and daughter injured | File photo

“It turned out that More was driving under the influence of alcohol in the Thar when he crashed into the Renault Kwid. He was arrested and produced in court and is currently under police custody,” said Senior Inspector Brahmananda Naikwadi of Nerul police station. The Pednekar family was a resident of Airoli Sector-8.

“The woman is unable to speak and therefore it is not clear where they returned from,” the officer said. The people who gathered after the accident rushed the victims to the hospital. While PEdnekar was declared dead on arrival, his wife and daughter are being treated for serious injuries.

During investigation, police found beer cans in the Thar vehicle. The accused More was a businessman from Sector 2 in Sanpada. He has been arrested under sections of the BNS for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and rash and negligent driving under sections of the Motor Vehicles Act.