College girl killed as Sumo hits scooter
Our Correspondent
Zirakpur, August 28
Two persons, including a girl student of Dera Bassi, were killed this morning in a head-on collision between a Tata Sumo and a scooter on the ‘killer’ Kalka-Ambala highway near Singhpura village, 2 km from here.
The student, Nidhi Jain (21), died on the spot. Four others were injured. The brother of Nidhi, Yatish Jain, was injured seriously. Nidhi was on the pillon of the scooter (PB-11R-8253) driven by her brother. An occupant of Sumo who died on the spot is to be identified. He died of electric shock as the Sumo rammed into an electricity pole on the highway.
The four-wheeler overturned after the incident, trapping the passengers inside.
Carrying 10 passengers, the Sumo (HR-56T- 2062) was on its way to Ambala when it collided with the scooter. Yatish Jain, a second year student of Dera Bassi Government College, sustained severe head injuries.
Eyewitnesses said the Sonepat-bound Sumo was overtaking a truck near the Silver City housing complex on the Ambala road when it collided with the scooter at 5.45 am.
Hearing a loud thud, two security guards, Manjit Singh and Surinder Singh, of the Silver City complex rushed to the spot and extricated the trapped passengers after disconnecting power supply to the electricity pole.
They also gave a call on 98140-17102, a 24-hour helpline number in Chandigarh.
Eyewitnesses said Yatish Jain and his sister were flung off the scooter.
Yatish was going to drop Nidhi at the Chandigarh Inter-State Bus Terminus since she was to go to Amritsar for academic work.
The police said both brother and sister were taken to Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, in Chandigarh where doctors declared Nidhi “brought dead” while Yatish was referred to the PGI in Chandigarh.
The driver of the Sumo was returning to Delhi after dropping passengers in Shimla. While on his way back, he picked passengers for Ambala, Kurukshetra and Panipat. The unidentified passenger in the Sumo was on his way to Ambala from Pinjore, the police said.
As news of the death of the girl reached Dera Bassi, shopkeepers of the area pulled down shutters. A pall of gloom descended on Jain Mohalla, where the family of the victims resides.
The police has nabbed the driver, Harbinder Singh, of the four-wheeler. A case under Sections 279 and 304-A of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against him with Lohgarh police post.
Nidhi’s body was handed over to her family after post-mortem while the body of unidentified passenger of the Sumo has been sent to the Civil Hospital, Rajpura.
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Our Correspondent
Zirakpur, August 28
Two persons, including a girl student of Dera Bassi, were killed this morning in a head-on collision between a Tata Sumo and a scooter on the ‘killer’ Kalka-Ambala highway near Singhpura village, 2 km from here.
The student, Nidhi Jain (21), died on the spot. Four others were injured. The brother of Nidhi, Yatish Jain, was injured seriously. Nidhi was on the pillon of the scooter (PB-11R-8253) driven by her brother. An occupant of Sumo who died on the spot is to be identified. He died of electric shock as the Sumo rammed into an electricity pole on the highway.
The four-wheeler overturned after the incident, trapping the passengers inside.
Carrying 10 passengers, the Sumo (HR-56T- 2062) was on its way to Ambala when it collided with the scooter. Yatish Jain, a second year student of Dera Bassi Government College, sustained severe head injuries.
Eyewitnesses said the Sonepat-bound Sumo was overtaking a truck near the Silver City housing complex on the Ambala road when it collided with the scooter at 5.45 am.
Hearing a loud thud, two security guards, Manjit Singh and Surinder Singh, of the Silver City complex rushed to the spot and extricated the trapped passengers after disconnecting power supply to the electricity pole.
They also gave a call on 98140-17102, a 24-hour helpline number in Chandigarh.
Eyewitnesses said Yatish Jain and his sister were flung off the scooter.
Yatish was going to drop Nidhi at the Chandigarh Inter-State Bus Terminus since she was to go to Amritsar for academic work.
The police said both brother and sister were taken to Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, in Chandigarh where doctors declared Nidhi “brought dead” while Yatish was referred to the PGI in Chandigarh.
The driver of the Sumo was returning to Delhi after dropping passengers in Shimla. While on his way back, he picked passengers for Ambala, Kurukshetra and Panipat. The unidentified passenger in the Sumo was on his way to Ambala from Pinjore, the police said.
As news of the death of the girl reached Dera Bassi, shopkeepers of the area pulled down shutters. A pall of gloom descended on Jain Mohalla, where the family of the victims resides.
The police has nabbed the driver, Harbinder Singh, of the four-wheeler. A case under Sections 279 and 304-A of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against him with Lohgarh police post.
Nidhi’s body was handed over to her family after post-mortem while the body of unidentified passenger of the Sumo has been sent to the Civil Hospital, Rajpura.
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