Six vehicles involved in chain-reaction crash on Mumbai Coastal Road; one catches fire, two drivers booked
Mumbai Six vehicles were involved in a chain-reaction accident inside the northbound tunnel of the Mumbai Coastal Road in the early hours of Friday (November 13, 2026), with one of the vehicles catching fire following the collision. No injuries or casualties were reported, officials said. Also Read | Eyes on the road: On India and road traffic fatalities The accident occurred around 2:33 a.m.
between CP 9 and CP 10 in the Coastal Road tunnel, within the jurisdiction of the Marine Drive Traffic Division. Road accident in Mumbai’s Colaba kills two Road accident in Mumbai’s Colaba kills two An accidental death (ADR) entry has been registered in the case Road accident in Mumbai’s Colaba kills two storyline 1 According to officials, the accident initially involved a collision between two cars, following which a trailing vehicle rammed into the stationary cars, triggering a chain-reaction crash involving six vehicles.
A Mahindra XUV700 was among the vehicles involved in the collision and subsequently caught fire. Police have registered a case against two car drivers at the Malabar Hill police station under Sections 281 (rash driving or riding on a public way) and 324(4) (mischief causing damage) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), read with Section 184 (dangerous driving) of the Motor Vehicles Act.
The Mumbai Fire Brigade received information about the incident at 2:39 a.m. Fire brigade personnel deployed along the Coastal Road responded to the incident and extinguished the fire by 3:26 a.m. According to a traffic police update, smoke was noticed emerging from the bonnet of one of the vehicles, prompting personnel at the spot to use a fire extinguisher to prevent the fire from spreading.
Although none of the occupants sustained injuries, the vehicles involved in the accident were damaged. The affected vehicles were subsequently removed from the tunnel with the assistance of towing vans. Traffic movement along the northbound carriageway was temporarily suspended while emergency personnel attended to the incident and cleared the damaged vehicles. Traffic was restored after all six vehicles were removed from the tunnel.
Personnel from the Malabar Hill and Gamdevi police stations, along with Assistant Commissioner of Police Suvarna Shinde, were present at the spot. Teams from the Mumbai Fire Brigade, police, ambulance services and Coastal Road staff were also mobilised. Traffic police confirmed that vehicular movement on the northbound carriageway had returned to normal.
