Techie loses life as civic body leaves dug-up road open

The deceased, identified as Jayaram of Krishna Nagar in West Tambaram, was working a software engineer at a private firm in Singaperumal Koil. On Wednesday night, Jayaram was returning home from the office on his two-wheeler when on Tambaram-Mudichur Road, while trying to evade the portion dug up for laying pipeline, lost control of the vehicle and rammed into a median. He suffered severe head injuries and died on the spot. Police said Jayaram had worn a helmet but since he did not lock it, it came off when he fell from the bike. Chromepet traffic police retrieved the body and sent it for postmortem to the Chromepet government hospital.

The residents claimed that road was not repaired even after the pipeline work by the Tambaram municipality got over. Following the incident, on Thursday morning the officials repaired the road.