A speeding car crushed to death two matric students on GT road in Barhi, some 45 kms away from Hazaribagh district headquarter. Victims were identified as Udit Kumar Rana (16) and Satish Kumar (16). Police officials said Udit and Satish were friends and going to attend tuition class on same bicycle when accident taken place. Angry villagers blocked GT road for hours but called off after local MlA Manoj Yadav pacified them.
Sources said Udit and Satish were going to attend tuition class in the morning when a car with registration number-Dl4CNS-2057 going to Dilbagnagar in Uttar Pradesh from Bengal hit their bicycle after the driver lost control over it. The speeding car crushed the duo to death. When the driver tried to speed away the vehicle it turned turtle while negotiating a crater. Eyewitnesses ran to help the students but Satish died on the spot and Udit succumbed to his injuries at Barhi sub-divisional hospital. local people caught the driver and three others sitting in the car and handed them to Barhi police.
Angry villagers blocked GT road for hours demanding compensation as well as action on guilty driver. Yadav, block development officer J.Murmu and Barhi police station officer-in-charge Jitendra Singh reached to the spot. Trio pacified the villagers with assurance of compensation after which jam was called off. later dead bodies sent for postmortem to sadar hospital. Yadav expressed his grief on the death of two students and said it was a big loss for the two families. Police officials said driver was sent to jail whereas the other in the car were released.