Two persons were crushed to death after a speeding truck rammed into a motorcycle near Pir Bazaar on the Cuttack-Salipur road on Monday morning.
One of the two deceased was identified as Satyajit Patra (24), a resident of Rajkanika in Kendrapada district, while the identity of another was yet to be ascertained.
The truck was moving at a high speed to dodge PCR personnel, who were conducting vehicle frisking on the Cuttack-Salipur road for traffic rule violations.
But the driver lost control and mowed down a motorcycle coming from the opposite direction near Pir Bazaar. The two died on the spot. Soon after, the truck driver fled leaving his vehicle on the spot.
Police reached the spot, seized the truck and launched a hunt to nab the driver.
In another incident, in Sambalpur district, the owner of a tractor, which met with an accident on Sunday resulting in death of two labourers, was fined Rs 53,200 for violation of various traffic rules.
During probe by police, it came to fore that the tractor lacked fitness certificate and several other documents, for which the fine was imposed on the owner of the vehicle.
Similarly, the bus which had hit the tractor lacked fitness certificate, pollution under control certificate and insurance. A fine of Rs 27,000 was slapped on the owner of the bus. Notably, a bus had hit the tractor on NH-55 in Sambalpur district killing the two labourers and critically injuring three others.