Bengaluru, Aug 28: Four persons, including three of a family, were killed and two others suffered injuries when the car in which they were travelling jumped the median and crashed into an oncoming truck at Sarjapur in Bengaluru yesterday.
The diseased are Anjani Yadav (31), a techie, his wife Neha (28), their two-year-old son Dhruv and their family friend Shubhra Santosh (27). They hail from Uttar Pradesh and resided in DS Max Layout in Billapur Village at Sarjapur Road.
The injured Santosh, who is also a techie, and his daughter Sanvi are receiving treatment.
On Monday evening, Santosh went to meet Anjani with his wife and daughter.
The families later went for dinner to a hotel near Attibele in Anjani’s car. At 12. 45 am on Tuesday, as they were returning, Anjani –who drove the car- over-sped and lost control near Confident Apartment at Attibele-Sarjapur Road.
The whizzing car smashed down the median, bounded into the opposite lane and hit the oncoming truck. The impact crushed the front of the car, killing four of the six passengers on the spot.
Passersby alerted the Sarjapur police, who hastened to the spot, pulled the bodies out of the wreckage and moved them to hospital. Doctors declared Anjani, Neha, Dhruv and Shubhra brought dead and are treating Sanjay and his daughter.
Sarjapur police have registered a case of death due to negligence and are probing the mishap further.
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