The number of road accidents in the city has suddenly shot up turning the roads into a virtual ‘deathtrap’. According to information, cases of accidents are on the rise and in first three months of the year about 20 mishaps have been reported.
On Wednesday, three persons, including a teenager were killed in two separate road mishaps in and around the steel city. In one of the mishaps, a 13-year-old boy, Sagar Sandil, was hit by a car at the Bara Flat Colony in Agrico under Sidhgora police station area.
In another incident, two youth identified as Kamu Tuddu (26) and Kamu Mardi (21) were killed on the spot at Kumarda village on Tata-Rajnagar Road under Rajnagar police station area in adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district. Both were travelling in a scooter when a passenger bus hit them on the Tata-Rajnagar Road.
The teenager who was a resident of Bara Flat was riding his bicycle. A 35-year-old youth identified as Abhijit Kumar Ghosh hit the boy and subsequently run over him by his car after deviating from his route. The boy died on the spot. Abhijit who is also a resident of Bara Flat was an amateur. He was learning to drive alone.
As a result of the mishap the family members and relatives of the mishap victim protested at the colony, but due to timely intervention of the police, the agitators were pacified. A relative of the mishap victim said, Sagar was a class VI student of a Sakchi-based high school. Officer-in-charge, Rajdev Singh said that they have arrested the car driver, Abhijit, who was responsible for the causing the mishap and have also seized the car (JH05Y-2716).
The other mishap which took place at Rajnagar was between a scooter and a passenger bus at Kumarda village on Tata-Rajnagar Road. Both the mishap victims Tuddu and Mardi were returning home from Chaibasa by riding the scooter. According to sources, both the victims who were cousin brothers were residents of Sundarnagar in Jamshedpur and had died on the spot.
Officer-in-charge, Rajnagar police station, Avinash Kumar said that the bus was going to Chaibasa from Jamshedpur and the victims were returning from Chaibasa, but at the Kumarda village the scooter they were riding was hit by the bus. He said the driver of the bus, however, managed to escape the scene having abandoned the passengers-laden bus on the spot.