Navi Mumbai: A 17-year-old girl and her maternal aunt were killed, and five others were injured in a pile-up of five vehicles on the Mumbai-Pune expressway. They were returning from Kolhapur towards Mumbai along the Expressway on Saturday. Due to the mishap, vehicular traffic on the Mumbai carriageway was disrupted for around two hours until a hydraulic crane was used to tow away the damaged vehicles. For the convenience of motorists travelling towards Mumbai, traffic cops had to divert vehicles along one lane of the Pune carriageway.Sujit Gadade, Assistant Police Inspector of Khopoli police, informed that the fatal mishap occurred around 5 pm in the Bhor Ghat’s downward gradient near Dheku village at Khopoli in Raigad district. The driver of a container trailer lost control and rammed into three cars, which in turn crashed into an ST bus, a van, and a luxury bus. The Swift car in which the victims were travelling in got crushed as it crashed into the rear end of the luxury bus.API Gadade informed that the deceased were identified as Ashwini Haldankar (35) and her niece Shreya Avtare (17), who scored 95 percent in the SSC board exam. The car was driven by Akshay Haldankar, who was admitted to Jakhotia Hospital in Khopoli. Other injured persons are Vasudha Jadhav (36), Rasika Avtare (38), Sarika Jadhav (9), and Avnish Jadhav (3), who are admitted to MGM Hospital, Kamothe. The accused container driver has been detained and booked under relevant sections of BNS and the Motor Vehicle Act for rash and negligent driving causing death.