'Overspeeding' BMW & Mercedes send cab spinning on sea link; no casualty

MUMBAI: A pile-up involving three cars left one carriageway of Bandra-Worli sea link completely jammed for half-an-hour Sunday. While no one sustained any major injury, the three vehicles have been damaged. Two of the cars were "racing" with one another, the driver of the third vehicle has alleged, reported.
The impact of the collision was such that one of the cars, a cab, spun around thrice before it got dragged from the fourth lane to the first, and did a U-turn in the same carriageway.
At around 11am when a Mercedes rammed into a BMW ahead of it, which in turn collided with a cab on the road towards Bandra, police said. The cab, in which a family was travelling, was pushed to the far extreme of the carriageway.
The occupants of the cab were taken to hospital. No one sustained any major injury, police said.
A criminal offence has been registered against drivers of the BMW and the Mercedes. A cop said the two drivers were taken to JJ Hospital for a medical examination to check if they were drunk.
"The BMW and Mercedes were over-speeding.The cab driver, Nisar Ahmed (26), filed a complaint against drivers of the two cars, stating that they were trying to "race with one another". The drivers of the BMW and Mercedes - Mumbai Central resident Shahbaz Khan (31), and Kurla resident Tarique Chaudhary (29) - were arrested. They were booked for 'attempt to culpable homicide, rash driving endangering life.