By: Express News ServicePune | Updated: December 8, 2025 07:59 PM IST 2 min readA school bus hit a car from behind near Hotel Ashirwad on the Navale bridge on the Mumbai Bengaluru-highway. (Source: Express Photo)In yet another incident at the infamous Navale bridge area of Pune city, a school bus collided with a car from rear side, leaving two persons injured, on Monday morning.Deputy Commissioner of Police Sambhaji Kadam confirmed that a school bus hit a car from behind near Hotel Ashirwad on the Navale bridge on the Mumbai Bengaluru-highway.“Two persons in the car were injured in the incident. They were taken to a hospital for treatment. A couple of students in the school bus also received minor injuries,” Kadam said.Police said that the victims were stable. There was a traffic jam following the incident for some time. Police brought the situation under control, ensuring smooth flow of traffic later.An offence in this case was lodged at the Sinhagad police station.Navale Bridge in the Narhe area of Pune and an adjacent location known as Selfie Point are “black spots” on the list of the Integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD) launched by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways of India.According to norms, a stretch of 500 metres of a road, on which five or more accidents with fatalities or grievous injuries have taken place in three years, is referred to as a “black spot”. Multiple accidents have been reported in the Navale Bridge area over the last few years.Story continues below this adLast month, on the evening of November 13, eight people died and 13 were injured, when an overloaded truck going from Satara to Mumbai via Katraj Dehu Road Bypass, lost control on the Navale Bridge slope, hitting multiple vehicles.Click here to join Express Pune WhatsApp channel and get a curated list of our stories© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:Pune Road Accident