Five killed as car collides with TNSTC bus on Karur-Tiruchy NH
The police rushed to spot and retrieved the bodies and sent them to Kulithalai GH.
Visual from the spot (Daily Thanthi)
TIRUCHY:Five persons including a family of four were crushed to death after the car in which they were travelling hit a TNSTC bus at Kulithalai on the Tiruchy-Karur National Highway, in the wee hours of Wednesday.
Selvaraj (50), from Gandhi Nagar near Kuniyamuthur in Coimbatore along with his wife Kalaiyarsi (45), daughter Akalya (25), and son Arun (22), were travelling to the Agni Veeranar temple at Kilaiyur near Orathanadu in Thanjavur, on Tuesday, in a car and Vishnu (24), from Erode, was behind the wheels.
When the car was nearing Kulithalai at Tiruchy-Karur national highway in the wee hours of Wednesday, the car collided head-on with a TNSTC bus bound from Aranthangi to Tirupur. Under the impact of the collision, all five occupants in the car including the driver Vishnu were crushed to death.
On information, Kulithalai police along with the fire and rescue personnel rushed to the spot. They retrieved the bodies and sent them to Kulithalai GH.
Later, district collector M Thangavel and SP Feroz Khan Abdulla visited the spot and conducted an inquiry.
Fortunately, the passengers from the TNSTC bus escaped without any injuries. Kulithalai police registered a case and are investigating.
