two others succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment, police said While two women died on the spot. Hyderabad: Four women were killed and three others injured after the autorickshaw in which they were travelling collided with a speeding truck near Naspur Gate in Mancherial district on Monday.
A Soundarya (36) and Chinthakunta Lakshmi (25) died on the spot. Thungari Sumalatha (28) and T Soniya (20) died while undergoing treatment. The auto driver, Prashanth , was allegedly speeding and lost control of the vehicle, according to police.
Naspur sub-inspector Mohammed Taheseenuddin told TOI , “The impact left the auto badly damaged. Ramagundam police commissioner Amber Kishore Jha said preliminary examination of CCTV footage suggested that the auto had moved onto the wrong side of the road before colliding with the truck. Jha said the stretch would be identified as an accident-prone zone, and proposals would be sent to the departments concerned to close the divider gap and implement engineering and traffic control measures to prevent similar accidents.
The victims were among seven women from Gudepalli and Ponnaram villages in Naspur who were on their way to Mancherial for work when the accident occurred. The auto veered onto the opposite side of the road and crashed into a truck coming from the other direction. Police shifted the injured to the Mancherial govt hospital. Two other women, Anusha and Diwyavani, suffered severe head injuries and were shifted to the Karimnagar govt hospital for advanced treatment. He also pointed to a gap in the road divider that allowed vehicles to take unauthorised turns, which may have contributed to the accident.
Police registered a case under sections related to rash and negligent driving and launched an investigation into the circumstances leading to the crash. The auto driver suffered minor injuries.