3 killed as car jumps divider, hits cab, Dzire on E-freeway

MUMBAI: Three people were killed and two injured after a speeding car collided with two vehicles, including a cab, on the Eastern Freeway on Tuesday morning. The accident occurred near Jijamata Nagar Junction, Chembur, barely 80 metres from the spot where last June corporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar, driving while drunk, hit a taxi, killing two.The dead are the speeding car’s driver Abdul Hamid Sirva (48), and the cab’s driver Nandlal Jaiswal (46) and passenger Vijay Kelkar (48).Sirva ran his family business of a mechanical engineering workshop in Thane, and lived in Yasmin Apartments in Mazgaon. He is survived by wife, three sons and aged parents. “Jaiswal and Kelkar died on the spot, with severe head injuries. But Sirva was moving. He was writhing in pain,” said an eyewitness, Anoop Singh, a cabbie.