The last rites of Cyrus Mistry, former chairman of Tata Sons who was killed in a car crash on Sunday, will be performed today in Mumbai. Cyrus Mistry’s funeral will be held at the Worli crematorium at 11 am.

Mistry was returning from Gujarat’s Udwada to Mumbai with three family friends — brothers Darius and Jehangir Pandole, and Darius’s wife Anahita Pandole when the accident took place.

According to the police, the car crashed into a divider at Surya River’s Charoti bridge on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad National Highway. Jehangir, 49, who was in the back seat of the Mercedes along with Mistry, too, died in the crash.

Meanwhile, a team from German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz, whose car crashed into a road divider, visited the accident spot, around 100 km from Mumbai, on Monday

The crash survivors, gynecologist Anahita Pandole, who was driving the car, and her husband Darius, were on Monday morning shifted by road to a private hospital in Mumbai from Vapi in Gujarat where they were taken on Sunday shortly after the accident. Anahita would undergo surgery after her situation improves, a hospital official said. Her husband has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital.

Preliminary findings say that the SUV could have been travelling at 130-140 kmph when the accident took place. While over-speeding and an “error of judgement” by the driver is suspected to be the cause of the accident, officials privy to the probe say that the condition of the SUV indicate that it was at a speed of 130-140 kmph.

“The impact was so huge that the radiator of the vehicle was not only completely smashed, it was pushed at least two to three feet inside,” media quoted an official as saying.

The last rites Cyrus Mistry will take place at Worli crematorium on Tuesday morning. Most of Mistry’s family members live abroad and were expected to reach Mumbai by Monday night.

Since the Worli facility opened in 2015, a growing number of Mumbai’s Parsis are choosing to cremate their deceased loved ones instead of consigning them to the traditional Towers of Silence to be consumed by vultures.

The post-mortem report of Cyrus Mistry has revealed polytrauma – major injuries to vital organs – as the cause of death.

The JJ Hospital administration completed the post-mortem at 2.27 am on Monday and has sent the report to the Casa police station, the local police station where the accident took place.

A team from German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz, whose car crashed into a road divider killing Mistry and another occupant, visited the accident spot, around 100 km from Mumbai, on Monday, a police official said.

Officials said that prima facie, the luxury car was speeding when the accident took place.

Sanjay Mohite, IG Konkan range, had said police will check the car’s brake fluid level. Low brake fluid causes air to fill the gaps in the brake line, leading to soft brakes. Spongy brake pedals can be dangerous, the official said. “We will check the parameters from Mercedes-Benz regarding the brake condition. A high-end vehicle can provide details such as tyre pressure, level of brake fluid etc. the vehicle, it looks like it must have been in high speed,” Mohite told reporters.

The crash survivors, gynecologist Anahita Pandole, who was driving the car, and her husband Darius, were on Monday morning shifted by road to a private hospital in Mumbai from Vapi in Gujarat where they were taken on Sunday shortly after the accident. Anahita would undergo surgery after her situation improves, a hospital official said. Her husband has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital.

Anahita Pandole (55) has suffered hip fracture while Darius (60) had jaw fractures causing airways obstruction, a doctor said. Anahita was driving the car on way to Mumbai from Gujarat when it hit a divider on Surya river bridge in Palghar district. Darius was sitting in the front seat.

Former chairman of Tata Sons Cyrus Mistry was returning from Gujarat’s Udwada to Mumbai with three family friends — brothers Darius and Jehangir Pandole, and Darius’s wife Anahita Pandole when the car crashed into a divider at Surya River’s Charoti bridge on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad National Highway.

Cyrus Mistry and Jehangir Pandole, both of whom who was in the back seat of the Mercedes, died in the crash.

Cyrus Mistry and Jahangir Pandole were not wearing seat belts as per a preliminary probe, a police official said, adding that over-speeding and an “error of judgement” by the driver caused the accident.

The bodies of Mistry and his friend Jahangir Pandole have been kept at the mortuary of the state-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai.

(With inputs from agencies)