Every day new accidents take place in Chennai. Four people lost their lives in an accident involving a car they were going in and a goods carrier truck on the East Coast Road, near Chennai, on Sunday. Two others were seriously injured in the head-on collision. The truck driver fled from the spot immediately after the accident. As per the reports, the incident happened around 5.45 am on East Coast Road between the Kunnathur and Madamai villages near Mahabalipuram.
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The car carrying six persons, who were from a charitable trust in Puducherry, was on its way to Chennai while the truck was traveling to Kalpakkam. They were reportedly on their way to T Nagar from Puducherry to attend a function. The truck driver is said to have overtaken a vehicle on the side of the road leading to Kalpakkam and crossed over to the opposite lane and collided with the car. In the impact, three persons inside the car Senthil Kumar (40) from Vellore, Sundaravarathan (54) and Murugan (53) from Puducherry died on the spot.
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Seeing the accident, a few passersby alerted the Mahabalipuram police, who reached the spot and sent the other three persons in the car were Jayabalan (67) of Panruti, Pranavamurthi (60) from Chennai and Thialagam (43) from Villupuram to the government hospital in Chengalpattu for treatment. Pranavamurthi succumbed to his injuries on Sunday afternoon while in the hospital. The other two are in critical condition.
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