Four of a family killed in road crash near KGF
The deceased have been identified as Devendra, 44, children D Deeksha, 20, and D Vishnu Sai, 12, and mother-in-law Sharada Bai. On Sunday evening, Chetan Kumar, 36, a private company employee who was taking his four-year-old daughter to buy shoes for her, died on the spot after his motorbike skidded off the road near Hemmigepura main road. His mother Subhalata Prabhu escaped with minor injuries in the accident reported around 7.45 am.
“There are no potholes or unscientific speedbreakers at the place,” a police officer said. A Mysuru-based man, his two children and mother-in-law died on the spot after their multi-utility vehicle rammed a stone culvert on Bengaluru-Chennai expressway near Doddakari village under Bethamangala police limits in KGF taluk around 7am Monday. Three more of the family travelling in the MUV were hospitalised with injuries. Kumar came under the wheels of a truck coming in the opposite direction. His daughter, riding pillion, escaped with minor injuries. A five-year-old boy riding pillion with his mother died after he accidentally came under the wheels of a tipper truck on Uttarahalli main road Monday morning. The deceased is R Bhavin, a resident of Kommaghatta, Kengeri.
Bengaluru: Nine persons, including four of a family returning from a pilgrimage to Tirupati , died in separate road accidents reported from Bengaluru and neighbouring districts starting Sunday.
Police said the family, which came out of the temple complex around 3am, decided to immediately leave for Mysuru instead of waiting for daybreak to return home. Yet, the MUV veered to the left and rammed the culvert before entering the field by the expressway side,” a police officer said. “We suspect that driver Vikash Rao dozed off. The site of the accident is a straight road.