MUMBAI: What began as a routine stop to clean his cab ended in catastrophe for a 50-year-old aggregator driver on Thursday morning when a BEST bus lost control and rammed into his parked vehicle, crushing him to death in Malad East.iiMumbai, India - June 04, 2026: A severely damaged car is seen after a BEST bus collided with multiple vehicles on Mumbai’s Western Express Highway in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, June 04, 2026. (Photo by Satish Bate/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)The accident took place around 6.50am near Pushpa Park on the southbound carriageway of the Western Express Highway, triggering a major traffic snarl during peak morning hours.According to the Samta Nagar police and BEST officials, bus driver Bramha Vishnu Pawar, 33, was operating route number 440/33 from Borivali Bus Station (East) to Wadala Depot when the bus struck a parked car and then crashed into the cab. The impact pushed the cab into another parked vehicle, resulting in a pile-up near the highway.The deceased, identified as Ramchandra Nirahu Pal, was standing behind his cab cleaning its rear portion when the collision occurred. Police said Pal became trapped between his cab and another parked vehicle after the bus slammed into the cab.Pal had been working as an aggregator cab driver for the past two years. “The cab was parked on the extreme left side of the highway. However, the bus driver lost control and crashed into it,” said an officer from Samta Nagar police station.Pal suffered severe injuries to his head and back. Police personnel rushed to the spot and shifted him to Shatabdi Hospital in Kandivali, where doctors declared him dead.The crash severely disrupted traffic movement on the Western Express Highway. Traffic police cordoned off the area and manually regulated vehicles until the damaged bus and cars were removed around 8am.The police have booked Pawar under Section 106 (causing death by negligence) and Section 281 (rash driving) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with relevant provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act.Investigators are recording the statements of Pawar and bus conductor Pratik Tari, 20, to determine whether human error led to the accident. Officials from the Regional Transport Office (RTO) will also inspect the bus to ascertain whether any mechanical malfunction may have contributed to the crash.