Road mishaps continuing to take toll in Uttarakhand, five persons died in four different road accidents in the State on Tuesday. One died and two others were seriously injured when the car they were sitting in skidded off the road and slipped into a deep gorge on Mussoorie -Dhanaulti road. In Rudrapur in Udham Singh Nagar, one child died while two others were injured when the two-wheeler they were on had rammed into a speeding truck. At Khatima in the same district, another accident claimed one life as the two-wheeler the deceased was riding had a head-on collision with another two-wheeler speeding from the opposite direction. In Haridwar district, two persons sitting on a scooty died, crushed under the wheels of a speeding truck at Kali Mandir, Bahadarabad.
It is learnt from police that the car that met the accident in Mussoorie had three persons sitting in it. It was going to Uttarkashi from Roorkee via Dehradun and Mussoorie. The accident occurred near FAR Club, Dhanaulti on Mussoorie- Dhanaulti road. The deceased was identified as Afzal Ansari, 30, resident of Gulabnagar, Rampur Chungi, Roorkee. The injured are Vaibhav Sharma, 25, resident of Shastrinagar, Roorkee and Sushil Kumar, resident of Bhagwanpur, Roorkee. The driver is supposed to have lost control over the vehicle while negotiating a sharp bend. locals rushed to the spot after they heard the injured scream. later, police came and admitted the injured at a local hospital.