In a tragic road accident, four people, three of them software engineers, died and two others were injured after a truck fell on the car they were travelling in Gurugram. Three of the deceased were IIT alumni and worked in Adobe in Noida.
The deceased have been identified as Deepak (25), Adarsh (23), Kumar Purjeet and Muskaan (24) while the victims are Priyanka(22) and Jasnoor. Priyanka suffered a fracture in her foot, while the other injured person is stable.
According to the police, the incident took place around 1.40 am near Sidhrawali village on the highway when an Innova car carrying four men and two women was travelling from Jaipur to Delhi. A truck carrying sacks of corn, which was going from Delhi to Jaipur, crossed the divider on the highway before crashing down on the car.
Bodies of the deceased have been kept in a mortuary while the injured were rushed to hospital for treatment, police said. “We have informed the deceased’s families and injured. Proceedings for registering an FIR is underway,” Inspector Ajay Malik, SHO of Bilaspur police station, said.
“The car was completely crushed and the injured were retrieved from the mangled remains of the car. All the injured were rushed to a private hospital in Bilaspur where four people succumbed to the injuries,” a police officer said.
“Their bodies have been kept at the mortuary for post-mortem. We have informed the families of the deceased and they are on their way to Gurugram,” the police officer added.
Priyanka Sultania (22), native of Kolkata and Jasnur Singh (27), native of Patiala in Punjab, suffered injuries and are undergoing treatment, police said, adding, they all were working and residing in Noida.
An FIR has been registered against the unidentified truck driver under sections 279 (rash driving), 336 (act endangering life or personal safety of others), 337 (causing hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others), 427 (causing damage), 304A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Bilaspur police station.