Mangaluru, Jun 12: Eye witnesses of last Friday's ghastly road mishap at Valachil, on the outskirts of the city, wherein five persons were killed and three others suffered serious injuries, have told police that the reckless lorry driver was using mobile phone while driving.
The container lorry was coming towards the city on the Bengaluru-Mangaluru National Highway hit the median and crossed over to the other side and rammed into two vehicles and a pedestrian.
Preliminary investigations have revealed that the lorry driver was speaking on mobile phone with someone while driving violating the traffic rules.
While the lorry reached Arkula near Valachil, the mobile phone slipped from driver's hand and fell down near his seat. The driver immediately bent down to pick it up.
In the melee he lost control over his vehicle, which crashed into the road median and ran amok. It first hit a car coming from the opposition direction on the other side of the road. The impact of collision caused the container section of the lorry to overturn onto an auto-rickshaw and a pedestrian. All three persons in the auto, the pedestrian and one person in the car died.
Among the deceased Muhammad Nazeer (29), son of Yusuf, a resident of Sajipa in Bantwal was riding the auto-rickshaw. Muhammad Salam (20), Son of Siddeeq from Nandavara, Sinan (16), son of Hameed, were travelling in the same rickshaw. Abbas (40), a resident of Vittla was on board the car. Husain (20), a resident of Adyar, was a pedestrian.
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It is so sad to find many families lose their loved ones, simply because of a reckless and drunk drivers.
not only truck drivers even for car drivers also now a days its becm a trend to talk on phone while driving. they are sitting inside and troubling others. police and system should be ruthless towards them. No other driver should touch mobile while driving.
really heart wrenching incident. victims were going in the right direction and this driver came as yamaduth and taken their lives, this driver should be given maximum punishment.
first of all lorry should be barred transporting in the day. heavy traffic in between that this careless lorry drivers driving negligently.
who issued license to him? stone him death. who will take care of the families that lost their bread winners?
inattentive person, his license must be seized and put behind bar till death. this type lorry drivers if seen anyone stop the vehicle and beat them in public.
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