Swades actress Gayatri Joshi's Lamborghini rammed by Ferrari on Italy vacay, accident kills Swiss couple

Former actress Gayatri Joshi, who starred opposite Shah Rukh Khan in the critically acclaimed movie Swades, and her husband Vikas Oberoi recently met with a car accident while they were vacationing in Italy.

Although Gayatri Joshi and her husband are doing fine, the multiple-car collision left a senior Swiss couple dead.

What happened

• According to a report by The Free Press Journal, Gayatri Joshi and Vikas Oberoi were driving on a rural road in Sardinia in their Lamborghini when the luxury car collided with a Ferrari and a camper van.
• A Swiss couple that was travelling in the Ferrari died when the high-end vehicle caught fire.
• The elderly couple who lost their lives were identified as Melissa Krautli, 63, and Markus Krautli, 67, from Switzerland.
• How did the accident take place? Reports suggest that while the Lamborghini and Ferrari were attempting to overtake the huge camper van ahead of them, they collided and a major accident took place.
• The camper van ahead also overturned on the road while the Ferrari caught fire.
• Gayatri and Vikas Oberoi are safe and sound: The Swades actress confirmed with The Free Press Journal that "Vikas and I are in Italy. We met with an accident here (multiple-car collision). With God’s grace, we both are absolutely fine."
• The incident is said to have taken place during the Sardinia Supercar Tour as part of which luxury cars parade from Teulada to Olbia.

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Here's a video of the fatal accident that has gone viral on social media. 

Gayatri Joshi was a video jockey and model, and then she went on to act in the movie Swades, which was released in 2004.

In 2005, she married Vikas Oberoi, a property magnate. Swades was her first and last film as she quit her acting career to focus on her personal life.