Mumbai biker crushed to death as truck mows her down after motorcycle hits pothole

Mumbai: A 36-year-old biker was killed when she was thrown off her two-wheeler after hitting a pothole on a road near Mumbai and was crushed by a passing truck.

Bandra-resident Jagruti Hogale, a member of the all-women 'Bikerni' motorcycle club, was on a trip with two other bikers to Jawhar in Palghar district on Sunday when the incident occurred, a police official said.

The advertising professional tried to overtake a truck on the Jawhar-Dahanu



road around 9 am but her bike landed in a pothole, throwing her off.

She was then crushed under the wheels of the truck, the official said, quoting an eye witness.

Hogale was rushed to a hospital where she was declared dead before admission, Kasa police station's assistant police inspector Jaiprakash Guthe said.

The biker had earlier driven up to Khardung La in Ladakh, one of the highest motorable roads in the world, the police official said.