Despite traffic police being on an overdrive to restrain the menace of rash driving and drunk driving, the people dying in accidents continue unabated. As many as seven persons, including a student, died in three different road accidents reported from various parts of the State over the past 24 hours.
In Dehradun district, a person died when the Scooty he was riding was hit by a bike coming from opposite direction on Wednesday. The accident occurred at Pandirwari in Premnagar area.
The deceased was identified as 45—year—old Munna Ram Sharma, resident of Kalsi. He was working in the ordinance factory, Raipur. He was currently living in Raipur. The accident occurred when Munna Ram Sharma was going to Chakrata from Premnagar. Seriously injured Munna Ram was admitted to a local Government hospital. He later died. The family members were informed and the body was sent for postmortem.
In Haridwar district, five persons died when the car they were in had a head-on collision with a truck coming from the opposition direction in Roorkee on Tuesday.
The mishap occurred when they were returning from Haridwar after immersing ashes of one of their relatives Ashok Kumar in Ganga. Three of the deceased identified as Sonu, Naresh, natives of Muzzafarnager and Yogesh, native of Saharanpur, died on the spot. The two others were sent to a hospital where they succumbed later.
In Raiwala, a student died while another was seriously injured when the bike they were on slipped into a gorge at Sai Mandir, Raiwala. Godin died on the spot while Paljar was rushed to Jollygrant Hospital. The duo was from Sikkim.
Students of a Dehradun-based college, they were residing in Patelnagar, Dehradun. Observers opine that death of seven persons in road mishaps have left the people scared. “The State being under the President’s Rule, things have hardly changed on the ground,” rued one of the observers.