The civic officials said that a truck driver and a helper were killed after their vehicle carrying iron rods and pipes hit a divider on a bridge and crashed into a street light pole in Maharashtra's Thane city shortly after midnight on Tuesday, reported news agency PTI.

The accident took place at the Patlipada bridge on Ghodbunder Road when the truck was on its way from Navi Mumbai to Gujarat, they said.

The incident was reported by the traffic police to the local control room at 12.35 am, Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said, reported PTI.