In a shocking car accident on Tuesday night near ESI Hospital on KN Katju Marg in Rohini’s sector 15, three people died while a four-year-old child was severely injured after a dumper overturned on their car.
According to the reports, the family was returning from a function in an Audi car when a dumper laden with sand, while taking a U-turn, overturned on their vehicle.
A passer-by informed the police around 1 am about the accident. Locals said the driver of the commercial vehicle failed to control it. Two cranes were used to remove the dumper.
Three of them — identified as Sumit, his wife, Sumit’s mother died, while the couple’s four-year-old son was left severely injured and is undergoing treatment. Bodies of the deceased have been sent for post-mortem.
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A case has been registered in the matter. The driver of the dumper managed to flee from the spot. A hunt is on to nab him.
In a similar incident on Monday night near Ramdev temple on State Highway-113 of Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh district, a speeding truck ran into a marriage procession fatally hitting 13 people, four of them children, while leaving 18 others injured.
The incident happened when the truck, going to Banswara from Nimbahera, rammed into the marriage party moving on the roadside.
