Actress Shabana Azmi injured after her car goes head-on with a truck at Mumbai-Pune Expressway

News Desk

Mumbai: Actress Shabana Azmi’s was seriously injured after her rammed into a truck head-on at the Mumbai-Pune Express Highway on Sunday afternoon along with her driver while driving towards Mumbai.

The incident took place at 3:30pm near Khalapur a place 60km from Mumbai. Her husband veteran actor Javed Akhtar was accompanying her in another car and is reported to be just fine.

The truck was moving towards their can when the accident happened on the express highway after which her Safari car bumped into the rare of the vehicle causing serious injuries to the actress sitting next to the driver.

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Shabana has sustained some minor injuries on her face and neck. She and her driver was immediately rushed to MGM Hospital in Navi Mumbai are currently going under treatment. Along with them an unidentified women was also injured to which the police is identifying.

“The safari was being driven by the driver followed by an Audi (in which Javed Akhtar was travelling). The driver tried to overtake and ended up crashing into the moving truck from the rear,” an official at the Highway patrol police was quoted as saying.

Shabana recently celebrated her husbands 75^th birthday in Mumbai. Both were seen during the party celebrating the veteran lyricists birthday from Thursday and Friday night are still doing the rounds on social media.