nashik three members of a family including a fouryearold girl died when the multiutility vehicle muv they were travelling in fell off a bridge on the nandgaonmanmad road on tuesday morning seven others four women and three men were injured the accident occurred in nandgaon taluka approximately 100km from here at 1am the nandgaon police said the family of 10 was travelling from jalna to malegaon after attending a wedding function the driver of the vehicle apparently dozed off while crossing a bridge over a river close to the nagya sakya dam as a result the muv crashed through the side barrier and fell 25 feet into the dry riverbed the deceased have been identified as 50yearold yakub mansuri afroz mansuri 25 and 4yearold sifa mansuri police said as soon as they received the information they went to the accident spot and with the help of the local residents shifted the injured people to the government hospital in nandgaon and later to malegaon on ambulances their condition is now stablenandgaon police inspector rameshwar gade told toi we would be writing to the departments concerned to take up repair works on the bridge the nandgaonmanmad road is about 20 feet wide and the bridge is narrower the bridge has an almost nonexistent sidewall just some barriers of about 1foot in height are placed along the side of the bridge there are also no streetlights or warning signboards near the bridge had there been a strong sidewall the vehicle may not have fallen off the bridge