Two males had been killed after a truck trailer overturned and crushed a bike and an auto-rickshaw on the Panipat-Jalandhar Nationwide Freeway-44 close to Shahpur village in Ambala Cantonment on Monday.
The deceased had been recognized as Tarsem Singh, a resident of Ladwa in Kurukshetra, who was on the bike, and Rajesh Kumar from Yamunanagar, a passenger within the three-wheeler.
Police mentioned the truck was headed from Delhi to Chandigarh when the motive force reportedly misplaced management on the slender Tangri bridge on account of fog. The automobile overturned, blocking one facet of the freeway and triggering a site visitors jam stretching a number of kilometres.
4 males in a Swift SUV, together with a BSNL worker from the Ambala CGM workplace, had a slender escape. “The truck driver misplaced management and hit two bikes, an auto, and our automotive. Whereas our automobile was broken on the rear, we’re protected,” the automotive driver mentioned.
Parao police station home officer (SHO) Dharamveer Singh mentioned that the truck overturned whereas the motive force was reportedly attempting to keep away from a collision with a automotive. “The truck has been faraway from the positioning and site visitors has resumed. A case has been registered towards the motive force, who fled the spot,” the SHO mentioned.
In a separate incident on Sunday, a Bihar native, Bhupinder Mukhiya, was killed and 10 of his relations had been injured when a automotive hit their auto-rickshaw close to the Jandali flyover. Mukhiya was travelling from Ambala Cantt railway station to Zirakpur along with his spouse and daughters. Mannequin City police impounded the automotive and registered a case.
In a gesture of humanity, personnel from the native police put up pooled cash to cowl the cremation prices for the sufferer’s household.
