25-Year-Old IT Engineer Dead, Seven Injured After Car Skids on Rain-Soaked Pune–Nashik Highway

Narayangaon, 30th June 2026: A 25-year-old IT engineer was killed and seven others were injured after a car lost control on the rain-soaked Pune–Nashik Highway and collided with two oncoming vehicles near Narayangaon in Pune district on Sunday evening.

The deceased has been identified as Sanjay Limbaji Khandagale (25), a resident of Golegaon in Junnar taluka. The injured include his 19-year-old wife, Kirti Khandagale, the car’s driver, Azaruddin Qazi, and five members of a family from Ahilyanagar — Maya Kadam (58), Namdev Kadam (59), Hrishikesh Kadam (30), Ritika Kadam (28), and Ruchika Kadam (27). All the injured are undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Narayangaon.

According to the police, Khandagale and his wife were travelling from Junnar to Pune when the accident occurred at around 7 pm. Heavy rain had caused waterlogging on the highway, resulting in the driver losing control of the vehicle. The car first crashed into the road divider before crossing onto the opposite carriageway, where it collided head-on with two vehicles travelling towards Narayangaon.

Khandagale sustained critical injuries and died in the crash, while the other occupants of the vehicles suffered varying degrees of injuries.
Assistant Police Inspector Pravin Sampange said Khandagale worked as an IT engineer in Pune and had returned to his native village two days earlier. He was travelling back to Pune with his wife when the accident occurred.

The collision led to traffic disruption on the busy Pune–Nashik Highway for nearly an hour. Police personnel, local residents and social workers rushed to the scene, rescued the injured from the mangled vehicles, and shifted them to hospital for treatment.
Police have registered a case and launched an investigation into the circumstances leading to the accident.