Pune Accident News: A four-year-old boy was killed when a road roller ran over him at a construction site in the Janta Colony area of Daund on Thursday, January 22, 2026. The boy was identified as Aryan Santosh Jadhav, 4, a resident of Daund Sugar Factory area, originally from Aheri Tanda, Vijayapura taluk, Karnataka.
The accident occurred around 4:30 p.m. while road resurfacing work was underway. Aryan’s parents were working nearby when he was playing at the edge of the road. Police said the roller operator failed to check behind the vehicle and did not control its speed, resulting in a collision that left the boy critically injured. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident was captured on CCTV and the footage later went viral on social media.
After the collision, the roller operator, Parshuram Shankar Rathod initially fled the site but was taken into police custody on Friday.
Residents raised concerns over safety and negligence at the work site. Aryan’s father, Santosh Jadhav, filed a complaint with the local police, saying the roller operator had been driving recklessly for the past three days despite repeated warnings. “His negligence cost my child his life,” Jadhav said, calling for strict punishment for the operator.
The Daund police have booked Rathod under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Motor Vehicles Act.
In a separate incident earlier this week, a five-year-old boy was killed after being run over by a speeding car inside a residential housing society in the Loni Kalbhor area of Pune. The victim, Nishkarsh Ashwat Swami, was riding a scooter inside the Joy Nest housing society around 3:21 p.m. on Monday when a car struck him near the parking area. The video shows the boy being crushed under the car’s left-side wheels before the vehicle stopped a few seconds later.
Residents rushed Nishkarsh to a private hospital in the same car involved in the accident, but he was declared dead before receiving treatment. His father, Ashwat Narayan Swami, filed a complaint against the driver, Atharva Ramesh Kawade, a 26-year-old student of MIT College in Pune who had entered the society to drop off a friend.