Telangana: Eleven killed in separate accidents in State

The dangerous practice of parking trucks without hazard warning claimed lives of 7 persons in two differnt accidents, while 4 others died in another accident in Telangana

Hyderabad: Two trucks parked on roads and highways without hazard warnings claimed the lives of seven travellers in two accidents, while four youngsters were killed in another accident in different incidents in Telangana in the early hours of Thursday.

Six persons died in Suryapet district when the Maruti Ertiga car they were travelling crashed into a truck that was parked on the roadside without hazard warnings after it broke down near Durgapuram village in the early hours of Thursday. Six of the car passengers – Srikanth, Manikyamma, Chandar Rao, Krishna Rao, Swarna and Lasya – died on the spot, while three others were injured.

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They were shifted to a hospital. The accident came just three days after a young couple was killed when their car rammed a parked truck on the same highway.

Expressing shock over the road accident, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy expressed his condolences to the family members of those who lost their lives. In the second incident involving a parked lorry, this time on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) near the Muthangi exit under Patancheru police station limits, a car went out of control, reportedly while being driven fast, and crashed into the parked lorry.

The collision sparked a fire, with the driver, Kattekolla Sirish (33), a resident of Beeramguda in RC Puram mandal, being burnt alive. Noticing the fire spreading to his lorry, the lorry driver alerted the police and Fire & Rescue Services, who rushed to the spot and doused the fire.

Though there were initial doubts that there were two persons inside the car, police said Sirish was the only occupant. Sirish, who was in the medical equipment supplying business, had gone to see his friend last night. When his mother called him at 3 am, he told her he would return home by 6 am.

He met with the accident just 10 km away from his home. In another tragic incident, four intermediate students died on Wednesday night after the motorbike they were riding crashed into a speeding private travel bus coming in the opposite direction at Illanda village in Warangal.

All the four students were on a single bike. According to Wardhannapet police, the students had gone to a nearby town to attend a wedding and were returning when the accident happened. Three of them died on the spot and the other succumbed while being taken to hospital.

All the victims were aged around 17 years. They were identified as M. Siddu, P. Ganesh, Varun Tej and P. Ranil Kumar. Ganesh hailed from Wardhannapet while three others were from Illanda village near the town.