Biker dies in crash
Senior citizen Shriram Antarkar lost his life after his bike was hit by a tanker on the Mumbai-Bangalore highway on Monday night. Antarkar was not wearing a helmet and head injury was the cause of his death. Antarkar was a resident of Giridharnagar in Warje. A case of rash driving has been lodged against a 22-year-old tanker driver, Govind Shingare, at Warje police station. Govind was ....
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Helmetless biker dies in accident
A bike ride late on Wednesday night proved to be his last for 24-year-old Shatrughna Nandire as he lost his life when his bike rammed into a tree in the Morwadi area in Pimpri. Shatrughna, who was not wearing a helmet, succumbed to serious head injuries. His friend Dayanand Danake, who was riding pillion, was seriously injured. A case has been lodged at the Pimpri police station regarding this incident. Shatrughna was a resident of Laltopinagar ....
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Rural cops finally get helmets
After deciding to make it compulsory for its entire staff to wear helmets, the Pune rural police has distributed nearly 500 helmets to its staff and is planning to get another 1,200 helmets. The Pune rural police had already taken a step towards ensuring safety of its staff when District Superintendent of Police Pratap Dighavkar declared that the helmet should be compulsory for his staff. He also decided to provide them with affordable helmets. However, ....
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Your head your choice
Most of the students staying in Bharti Vidyapeeth University campus are happy using two wheelers, but equally happy to ride them without wearing helmets. To teach these youngsters, and others in the area, the use and necessity of the helmet, the Rotaract Club of Pune’s Yuva held a rally in the Bharati Vidyapeeth Campus area on Saturday. Around 25 members of the club with 14 ....
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Tech fest winners to get helmets
The technical fest which will be organised on March 11, 12 and 13 by students of Sinhagad Engineering College is going to be a little different from the usual ones. Understanding the need and importance of helmets, and inspired by Pune Mirror’s helmet campaign, some students from the mechanical department will be giving away branded and quality helmets as prizes to the tech fest winners. Apart from this, all participants will be given cash ....
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Biker dies in accident
When 30-year-old Praveen Lokhande left his workplace on February 3 to go home, he could not have guessed that it was to be the last ride of his life. Had he an an inkling, he might have take the trouble of wearing a helmet. As it was, Lokhande lost his life after a vehicle crashed into his bike on the Mumbai- Bangalore highway that night. Praveen’s brother, Pramod Lokhande, has lodged a ....
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Doc saved by helmet
Who knows the importance of a helmet better than a doctor? Forensic expert Dr Harshal Chaudhari knows it even better now, because wearing a helmet saved his head and probably his life in a recent accident. Chaudhari is a resident of Bharati Vidyapeeth in Katraj and works in the forensic department of Sassoon Hospital. He has the discipline and good sense to wear a helmet whenever he’s riding his bike. Chaudhari has been in three accidents....
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‘It pains us to see people die so young’
He has to see death in the face most of his working hours. But what saddens him the most is looking at young lives snuffed out too early. Mirror talked to Dr Amol Shinde, forensic expert and lecturer in the forensic department at Sassoon General Hospital, who said that most of the accidents taking place in the city involve two-wheeler riders. He said, “We conduct many post-mortems ....
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Fergie student survives, thanks to helmet
Purva Sawant’s sister recently got married. And Purva is thankful she was able to attend the ceremony. The reason: only a few days before the marriage she met with an accident while riding her bike, but as she was wearing a helmet, she survived. Nineteen-year-old Purva is a resident of Bhosale Nagar and currently pursuing her graduation from Fergusson College. She uses her two-wheeler to ....
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Tackling them head-on
Bikers riding their two-wheelers on Bund Garden Road without helmets felt the heat on their bare heads on Saturday as young schoolgirls from Anjuman- I-Islam school came up to them, urging them to wear helmets and extolling the uses of the protective headgear. Rotary Margdarshak had organised a rally with students from Anjuman- I-Islam on Saturday to appeal riders to use a ....
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Back on his two wheels
Sanjeev Nemade (28) considers himself very lucky. In spite of being involved in a major accident which resulted in a serious leg injury for him, his head was saved because he was wearing a helmet. A resident of Rambaug Colony in Kothrud, Sanjeev works in a private company in Viman Nagar. Sanjeev always uses his bike to go to office and also enjoys going for long rides in his spare time. But whether he rides for work for pleasure, one rule ....
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For those who have felt the loss
Nobody knows the pain of losing a family member better than the Japtiwales who lost their daughter in an accident when she was 22 years old. The grief-stricken Japtiwale family then started a foundation in the memory of their daughter through which they give support to other families who have lost their family members in road accidents. Chandrahas and Sunanda Japtiwale, residents of Bhusari colony in Kothrud....
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A 17-year old girl from the Nanded district of Marathwada migrated to Pune to learn folk dance and become a dancer in the famous tamasha troupe of Kunda Shinde Patil-Punerkar. However, within minutes after reaching Pune, she died in a mishap on the Bhosari-Alandi road. The tamasha troupe owner Kunda Shinde, who had gone to receive the aspiring dancer herself also suffered some ....
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