Seven dead as car rams truck in Karnataka
Shivamogga (Karnataka) May 4 (IANS) Seven men travelling to attend a friend s wedding died in a road accident in central Karnataka when the car they were in crashed into the rear of a truck police said on Thursday.
The mishap occurred around Wednesday midnight when the speeding multi-utility vehicle rammed into the rear side of a truck carrying timber near Muddinakoppa in this district on the state highway Shivamogga district Additional Superintendent of Police M. Muthuraj told IANS.
The victims aged between 25-45 years were travelling from Bengaluru to Sagara town in Malnad region to attend their friend s wedding on Thursday.
The accident spot is about 100km from Shivamogga and 405km from Bengaluru.
The victims were identified as Madhu car driver Praveen a make-up artist Mallesh Sridhar Rajesekhar Raghavendra and Manjunath.
Police had a tough time extricating the victims bodies from the mangled vehicle which got stuck to the truck s rear side on impact.
The accident also led to blocked vehicular traffic on the busy highway for over three hours post-midnight.
The unidentified truck driver escaped in the dark. A search is on to nab him. He seems to have suddenly applied the brake resulting in the collision from behind said Muthuraj.
--IANS
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