A farmer was run over by a speeding truck near a vegetable market at Barabati Chhak on NH-16 in Jajpur district on Friday morning.
The deceased was identified as Amulya Sethi (32), a resident of Prathamkhandi village in the district. Four others were injured in the incident. Two of them were taken to the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack.
Sethj and some other farmers were selling their vegetables at roadside when the goods truck en route to Kolkata from Cuttack ran over him while overtaking an iron rod-laden vehicle.
Sethi died on the spot. Four others, including a businessman and a farmer, sustained grievous injuries. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital and the SCB Hospital.
The driver of the truck escaped from the spot following the incident.