Four persons, including three engineering students, were killed and two others were injured after a speedily driven car rammed into a mini truck coming from the opposite direction near Anjora bypass Tri-section on Thursday morning.
“The mishap occurred around 10:15 am opposite to Heritage School on Anjora bypass. The driver of speedily driven car in which five engineering students of Shankaracharya Engineering College were sitting, lost control and dashed into the road divider,” NP Upadhyay, City Superintendent of Police (CSP), Durg said.
The car then crossed the divider and smashed into a Swaraj Mazda Truck coming from the other side. The collision was so intense that three students in the car and truck driver died on the spot, the CSP said adding bumpers of both vehicles have been turned into metal scrap.
Two injured students are undergoing treatment in Sector 9 hospital Bhilai and they are not in a position to talk, Upadhyay mentioned.
According to the police, the deceased have been identified as Yashu Verma from Tilda Neora, Danish Ali hailing from Kelabadi area Durg, Yathesh Singh of Bhilai and the Mazda driver Umesh native of Nagpur, Maharashtra.
The injured Kushal Naidu and Vinayak Agrawal are undergoing treatment.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister Raman Singh has expressed profound grief over the mishap and has extended his sympathies for the grief struck families.