About half a dozen tourists were injured when the car they were travelling in from Delhi to Nainital fell off the road down the mountainside. The injured were taken to the BD Pande hospital from where they were discharged after treatment. It is being stated that the driver of the car had trouble keeping awake while driving, which is believed to have caused the mishap.
A Wagon-R car number Dl SCP 3575 was being driven towards Nainital on Sunday when about five kilometres from town, the driver lost control which led to the car falling about 15 feet down the road. Passers by who witnessed the mishap informed the police after which the Tallital station officer in charge Manvar Singh reached the site with other policemen. They extracted the injured tourists from the car and sent them in ambulances to the Government hospital. Those involved in the accident have been identified as Kamal Chawla from Punjabi Bagh area of Delhi who was also driving the car, his wife Deepika Chawla, their 11-year old daughter Jahnavi, Surjeet, his wife Shashi and their son Ishant. According to the doctor treating them in the hospital, all the injured persons are out of danger. The children reportedly did not sustain any injury in the mishap. It is being stated that the car got stuck after falling off the road which prevented the mishap from turning into a major accident.