Udupi: Two college students sustained serious injuries when a tipper truck rammed their scooter near Vishnumurthy Temple at Balkur village in Kundapur taluk on state highway 52 around 8.45am Friday.
Kundapur Rural police have registered a case under sections 110, 303(2) and 238 read with Section 3(5) of BNS, sections 4(1)(A) and 21(4) of the MMRD Act, and sections 134(a) and (b) of the Motor Vehicles Act. Stay updated with the latest Mangaluru news.
Police said the tipper involved in the accident was transporting clay without the required permit. Nagaraj and Rathweej, the drivers of the two tipper trucks, and Ajith Shetty, owner of the site from where the clay was excavated, have been arrested. Further investigation is under way. In a similar incident, police had recently raided a site at Pethri in Brahmavar taluk following reports of illegal clay soil excavation and transportation, and registered a case. Download the TOI App.
TK Mohammed Shayan and Mohammed Rayan, who were travelling on the scooter from Kandlur towards Basrur, were admitted to a private hospital. Two tipper trucks were proceeding from Kundapur in a rash and negligent manner, allegedly endangering human lives. When the driver of the leading tipper slowed down on noticing a KSRTC bus ahead, the driver of the second tipper, which was travelling at high speed, rammed into it and moved sharply towards the right side of the road. The tipper then hit the scooter.