6 die, 13 hurt in 2 road accidents
The district woke up on Thursday morning to the cries for help by the victims of road accidents in two places. Six people died including four children of a family in a road mishap, while another 13 people were injured and undergoing treatment in hospitals.
Ongole: The district woke up on Thursday morning to the cries for help by the victims of road accidents in two places. Six people died including four children of a family in a road mishap, while another 13 people were injured and undergoing treatment in hospitals.
Macharla Veeraswamy, a retired electrical department employee, from Guntur, visited Tirumala with his family to attend the tonsuring ceremony of his granddaughter, Nithya, aged 9 months. He along with other relatives visited the shrine and were returning to Guntur on Wednesday night, with 10 other relatives.
The car they were travelling broke down near Medarametla and Veeraswami’s son, son-in-law and another person started to push the car to the bay area on the highway. At that time, a speeding tipper lorry hit the car and killed the driver Nagaraju aged 25, Chinnikrishna Manohar aged 5, Chinnikrishna Vasavi aged 3, Srikrishna aged 3 along with baby Nithya.
Veeraswamy and his wife Venkata Ganga and daughter Lakshmi Prasanna, daughter-in-law Madhavi were severely injured as they were in the car at the time of accident. In another accident, a car with a group of passengers who were natives of Malkangiri of Odisha hit stationary lorry at Renangivaram of J Panguluru mandal.
They were returning from Tirumala and on their way to Bhadrachalam. A woman, Ramadevi aged 56 died on the spot, while seven other sustained injuries. All the injured were brought to Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in Ongole for better treatment and postmortem was conducted of the deceased.
The district SP Dr CM Trivikrama Varma visited the Medarametla accident spot and ensured the injured reached the hospital. Transport Minister Siddha Raghava Rao visited the injured in RIMS and said that alternate travel arrangements will be made for the victims of the accidents to reach their native place.
He said, “We are trying to make the State a zero-accident region and creating awareness among the drivers about the adverse affects of speed and drunken driving.”
