Cases of road mishaps at the stretch between Pardih and Chandil on National Highway-33 have become a regular affair, especially the stretch that leads after NH-33.
During the past four months, 15 mishaps have taken place in which 20 persons have died on the NH-33 between Pardih to Chandil -- a stretch of 20 kilometres. Earlier, the traffic was slow as the road was dotted with potholes, but ever since it was repaired, the vehicle owners tend to drive at a high speed.On Thursday morning, two youths were killed on the spot and another injured when the car they were travelling turned turtle at the NH-33 under Chandil police station area in adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district.
Those killed were identified as Prashant Singh and Niraj Bhardwaj, both residents of Sonari. The injured identified as Vaibhabh Mahto was rushed to the MGM Medical College and Hospital's emergency. Significantly, the car which they were driving was a stolen car and it had been stolen from the residential premises of Shishir Kumar Jha in Phase IV of Adarshnagar in Sonari. The police arrived at the scene of mishap and took all the three to the MGM Medical College and Hospital emergency where two persons were declared as brought dead. They were drunk and had sustained head injuries.
Police inspector, Rajiv Kumar Singh of Chandil police station confirmed that two persons were killed and another was seriously injured when the car they were traveling hit with a poll on the NH-33 along the Tata Down area.Officer-in-charge, Sonari, Animesh Gupta said that getting a tip off from the Chandil police, he had sent a team and finally discovered that the mishap victims were riding in a car which had been stolen from the premises of Shishir Kumar Jha.
The mishap victim Prashant Singh (21) was a resident of Sonari and was B. Com student of a local college, where as another mishap victim Niraj Bhardwaj a resident of Sonari was a 2nd year B.Com student in Priyadarshini College in Nagpur. Vaibhab, a resident of Adarshnagar Phase IV is also a B. Com student in a Kolkata-based college. Earlier in another incident, two youths were killed when the car overturned on Chowka Road under the Chowka police station area in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district late Wednesday night. The victims were identified as Jay Mandal (30) and nephew Dinu Mandal (30), both residents of Kalyanpuri area of Adityapur.
As per data available, Jamshedpur witnessed 424 cases of accidents reports in 2012 out of which 173 were fatal making the death figure reach 189. In 2013, there were total 348 accidents out of which 140 were fatal with 150 deaths. Though the figures for 2014 being complied but police officials informed the figures would be alarming.