CUDDALORE: At the very least 5 folks, together with a four-year-old boy, had been crushed to demise when the automobile they had been travelling in collided head-on with a lorry close to Chidambaram in Cuddalore district within the early hours of Thursday.
Police mentioned S. Yasar Arafat, 38, from Kumbakonam and his 4 kinfolk had been returning to their hometown after visiting one in every of their kinfolk, who was present process remedy at a non-public hospital in Chennai.
After they approached a bridge at Aniyankuppam close to Chidambaram on the nationwide freeway, their automobile collided head-on with a lorry coming from the wrong way. Yasar Arafat and 4 others – M. Arabah Nisha, 27, B. Shakitha Begam, 60, A. Mohamed Anwar, 55, and Aabanan, 4 – had been crushed to demise on the spot.
The automobile was fully ripped aside within the influence of the accident. The lorry driver, who sustained minor accidents within the accident, deserted the heavy automobile and fled the scene. A crew from Parangipettai, together with a freeway patrol crew, rushed to the spot, recovered the our bodies, and despatched them for postmortem examination to Chidambaram govt normal hospital.
Preliminary inquiries revealed that the lorry was over-speeding and the driving force misplaced management of the automobile upon recognizing the fast-approaching automobile.
