NAMAKKAL: A driver died after a truck carrying cement mixture crashed into a stationary truck on the Salem-Kochi National Highway at Kumarapalayam in Namakkal district on Wednesday morning.
A truck carrying iron bars from Salem to Perundurai in Erode district broke down in the Kumarapalayam Teachers’ Residence area on the national highway, and a cement mixture truck going from the Valayakkaranur area to Anthiyur in Erode district rammed it, according to police. “The driver of the cement mixture truck, P Eswaran, 43, of Erode, died in the accident,” said an officer at the Kumarapalayam police station. Police rushed to the scene and restored traffic. They registered a case and began investigations.
The fire department recovered the body of the driver, Eswaran, and sent it to the Kumarapalayam Government Hospital for postmortem. The accident caused traffic disruption on the national highway for more than two hours.