Three engineering students die in early morning car crash on GST Road
In an early morning tragedy, three students of the SRM University were killed after the car in which they were travelling overturned after hitting the median near Maraimalai Nagar on the Chennai-Tiruchy national highway on Saturday.
By : migrator
Update: 2016-10-15 18:43 GMT
Chennai
Sources said that three other students were also injured in the accident. Maraimalainagar police said Sharma Singh (19), Suman Singh (18) and Nilkuntal (19) all from Bihar died after admission to hospital. While Suman Singh was a first year student, the other two deceased were in the second year of their course. The three injured, identified as Sithar Singh (19), Nilu (19) and Silangir (19) all of Himachal Pradesh, were admitted to a private hospital nearby.
Police said the accident took place around 6 am when the students were returning after having tea at Mahindra City, a tech park located nearby. The vehicle crashed into the median on GST Road as the driver reportedly dozed off and lost control.
The impact of the crash was so severe that the rims and discs of the wheels got disfigured and the tyres also flattened. Police said three of the six passengers sustained grievous injuries and died at the hospital soon after admission. A case has been registered and investigations are underway.
The Maraimalai Nagar accident comes at a time even before the city could come out of the shock over the death of three college girls at Guindy a couple of days ago.
TN leads in accidents
- In 2015, Tamil Nadu registered a total of 69,059 accidents, nearly 14 per cent of road accidents in India.
- TN recorded 15,642 fatalities due to road accidents, just behind UP, where 17,666 persons lost their lives.
- An average of 1,300 persons in TN lost their lives every month in 2015.
- Chennai recorded the highest number of fatalities with 886, followed by Coimbatore with 238, and Tiruchi with 156.
DEADLY DRIVE
October 13: Three students of Chellammal Women’s College in Guindy were crushed to death by a water tanker lorry in front of their college on Anna Salai. Four others, including a student of the same college, were injured.
July 17: A 19-year-old college student from Tambaram died at the Government Royapettah Hospital (GRH) after he hit a car from behind on Cathedral Road in Teynampet.
March 14, 2016: A car fatally knocked down a 20-year-old college student on a motorbike on Arcot Road near Vadapalani on Monday. The student was identified as M Sharan Vinayak, a B Com student of Loyala College. The car driver, Rajesh, was arrested.
September 28, 2015: Three medicos died, while another was seriously injured, when a speeding truck hit their car at Bommayarpalayam near Puducherry on ECR. The victims were T Thangakumaran of Kanyakumari, A Aravind Kumar of Bharathi Nagar in Chennai and A Hari Prasad of Chennai, studying final year MBBS in the Aarupadai Veedu Medical College in Puducherry.
(Data courtesy: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways)
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