Accident spree continuing unabated, one person died and three others—one woman and two teen age youths were injured in three different accidents reported from various parts of the State on Thursday.
Accidents happening almost daily despite Governor KK Paul asking the officials to control them are leaving the people scared. “We wonder whether the traffic police are on their maximum guard. Even the Governor’s order to have responsibilities fixed for road mishaps has failed to stop them fromlowering their guard,” saidan elderly denizen of Dehradun. He said he feels scared while taking morning and evening walks lest he be run over.
Udham Singh Nagar DM Akshat Gupta, on the other hand, flagged off an awareness rally to educate the people for safe driving. Students of various schools participated in the rally.
They appealed to the vehicle users to don helmets and avoid rash driving and drunk driving and follow the traffic rules.
In one of the such mishaps that occurred in Rampur, Haldwani, a car driver died after the car fell into a ditch. local residents
admitted him at a hospital where he succumbed. The deceased has been identified as Surendra Singh Bisht,
resident of Anandpur. He was going to his office as he was working as an operator in a private company.
In Rishieksh, a woman was seriously injured when an auto, coming from opposite direction, knocked her. She was admitted at a hospital.
At Cheela Bairaj, two bike- borne youths were injured after a vehicle,coming from the opposite direction, had a head-on collision with the two-wheeler.
The injured who have been identified as Himanshu Dangwal (17), resident of Indranagar and Archit Bansal (19), resident of Shyampur, were admitted at a hospital. Both were referred to higher centre as their condition worsened.