At least two persons died on the spot and five suffered severe injuries in a major road accident which took place at Pandeywara of Chauparan block of Hazaribagh District on Monday morning.
On grand trunk road (NH2) a truck lorry dashed a car first and then the unbalanced car ran on a bike and two people standing nearby.
The collision was so strong that fire broke out in the car and truck immediately after the accident. Driver of the car Suresh Pandit (35) died on spot. Another person Arvind Kumar Pandey, son of Awadhesh Kumar Pandey of Pandeywara, who was on bike also died after some times on the spot.
The eye witnesses said that the car was in high speed and near Pandeywara Chowk it tried to overtake the truck lorry. While overtaking the truck the car got dashed by the truck from backside and immediately fire broke out in both the vehicles. Some say that the driver of the ill fated car having number BR 02T- 3321 burnt alive inside the car while the driver and cleaner of truck lorry having number UP 22P- 5413 escaped from the spot.
The villagers rescued Roshan Kumar (22) son of Gopal Mahto, Canchal Kumar, (24) son of Chandreshwar Prasad and Chotan Kumar (24) all of Manpur Gaya from the burning car. All these three were seriously injured. Besides these three - Rahul Nashad of Barhi and Parmeshwar Yadav of Itkhori, Chatra who were standing on road side also got injured after being dashed by unbalanced car.
The residents of Pandeywara blocked the traffic of NH2 and started demanding compensation for the family of deceased Arvind Kumar Pandey. DSP Barhi, BDO Chauparan and OIC’s of both Barhi and Chauparan PS reached there. MlA Uma Shankar Yadav Akela also reached at the spot immediately and first arranged ambulances to transport the injured persons to Sadar Hospital Hazaribagh.
After several round of talks the villagers finally agreed to open the road. Due to this incident traffic on NH2 got hampered for more than 4 hours. BDO Chauparan handed over the cheque of compensation amount as per government provisions to the father of Arvind.
In Hazaribagh Sadar Hospital treatment is going on of all the injured. Chanchal Kumar of Manpur Gaya, who was on that ill fated car said to pioneer that from Gaya they were coming to Hazaribagh to attend an engagement ceremony in the Dipugarha mohallah of the town. The driver Suresh Pandit who died in this accident was resident of Kolghatti area of Gaya.