The driver of a utility vehicle is reported to have died on the spot with four other persons travelling in the vehicle sustaining injuries when the jeep they were travelling in met with an accident and fell in the Kalpganga river along the Helang-Urgam motor road in Chamoli district on Tuesday.
According to official sources, the utility vehicle met with the accident near the power house on the Helang-Urgam motor road and ended up submerging in the river. Of the total five persons in the vehicle at the time of the mishap, the driver is stated to have died on the spot apart from which two persons were brought to the community health centre in Joshimath while the remaining two persons who were thrown out of the vehicle during the accident were reported to have sustained only minor injury.
The utility vehicle was carrying four passengers and transporting some goods from Helang to Urgam when it met with the mishap. One of the injured persons who had sustained head injury had to be referred to higher centre for treatment with the necessary facility not being accessible in Joshimath.
The police and local administration officials reached the site of the mishap and had yet to ascertain the exact cause of the accident till the time of this report being filed.