The prestigious Outer Ring Road around Hyderabad continues to prove a death trap for the commuters as one more deadly accident on Wednesday morning claimed three lives. Victims include two grandsons of former Director General of Police P Ramulu and a nephew.
Cyberabad Police Commissioner CV Anand said that the accident occurred when the Skoda car in which the former DGP’s family was travelling, hit a stationary milk van on the ORR at Kokapet killing three on the spots and injuring three others.
A pall of gloom descended on the residence of P Ramulu, Chairman of Telangana Tourism Development Corporation when the bodies of the victims were brought there on Wednesday afternoon following postmortem.
According to the family member Ramulu’s grandson Varun Pawar and other family members had gone to their farm house on Tuesday night and met with the deadly accident while returning home on Wednesday morning. Varun and his cousin Amit died on the spot as the bonnet of Skoda car went under the milk van. Ramulu’s nephew P Gnanadev died
later at the hospital. Another grandson Rahul Pawar was admitted to a hospital in a critical condition.
Deadly accident have become a common recurrence on the ORR and many of the victims belonged to prominent families.
They include son and nephew of former Indian cricket captain Mohammed Azharuddin, son of a prominent Tellugu film actor and a son of a Former Minister.