Rishabh Pant Car Accident: From Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi to Andrew Symonds, 5 cricketers involved in a major road accident - IN PICs

On July 1, 1961, as Oxford was playing Sussex, Mak Pataudi, who would later captain India, was involved in an accident on his way home. He was riding in an automobile when it collided head-on with another vehicle. He was taken to a nearby hospital and It was determined that he had severely hurt his right eye, impairing his ability to see out of it. The eye had been pierced by a windscreen splinter.

While travelling back home following a game in Trinidad in 2012, the West Indies batsman (age 33) tragically passed away. He crashed the car into a pole and died as a result of the collision.

The West Indies all-rounder passed away at the age of 26 in a car accident in 1959. The incident happened while he and his West Indian colleagues Tom Dewdney and Garry Sobers were travelling to London for a charity game. Smith fell into a coma in the hospital after their automobile collided with a cattle tractor in Staffordshire.

When he was just 17 years old, the car the former India spinner was driving in was involved in an accident on Marine Drive. On July 28, 1990, one of Bahutule's friends passed away from his wounds while another suffered serious wounds. He had a steel rod put into his right leg, but a year later he was back playing cricket.

Former Australia cricketer and two-time World Cup winner Andrew Symonds died in a car crash on May 16. The 46-year-old was the sole passenger in the crash just outside of Townsville in his home state of Queensland, police confirmed.