Three people died while two were severely injured after a head-on collision between a car and a truck occurred at Dohara area of neighbouring Sehore district in the early morning hours. The accident took place at around 6 am on National Highway-12 when the victims were on their way back to Kamthi area of Nagpur district. The impact of head-on collision was so intense that three passengers in the car died while two were severely injured.
The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital where three were declared brought dead while two sustained severe injuries and were later referred to Bhopal. Deceased were identified as Touseef Khan, Sajid Khan and Irfan alias Sonu Khan, while the injured were identified as Toufeeq and Imran were referred to Bhopal and were admitted in Carewell hospital. Police said that the five youth in the car were on their way to Nagar, Maharashtra from Ajmer, Rajasthan. Station House Officer of Dohara police station BD Beera said that the accident took place near Model Nursery.
The truck was seized by the police later but the errant truck driver escaped the spot after the accident. Intensity of the collision was so high that the JCB machine was called to pull apart the vehicle and rescue the victims. After the incident huge bee lines of vehicles were witnessed creating traffic jam for hours and the traffic was resumed after 3-4 hours.
The police have registered a case under section 279, 337 and 304 A of the IPC and have started further investigation. The victims were in Tata Indigo car. Police said that in the initial investigation it was found that the vehicles were speeding but reason which caused accident could be confirmed after recording the statements of the victims.