Navi Mumbai: A 38-year-old man died after his bike crashed into a tree near Barvai village on the old Mumbai-Pune highway early Wednesday morning. The incident occurred when the rider, identified as Prashant Prakash Jadhav, lost control of his motorcycle while returning from Panvel to his hometown in Khalapur.
Jadhav, a resident of Kambe village in Khalapur and an employee at Jio Mart, had travelled to Panvel on Tuesday night. Around 5 a.m. the following morning, while on his way back, he reportedly lost control of the vehicle and rammed into a roadside tree. The impact left him severely injured.
“Upon receiving the alert, we rushed to the scene and shifted Jadhav to a nearby hospital. However, he was declared dead before arrival,” a police official from Panvel Taluka police station said.
