Tumakuru, Oct 26 (IANS) Two young women were killed and several others injured in a collision involving two cars in Tavarekere village limits of Sira taluk in Karnataka’s Tumakuru district early on Monday.
The deceased have been identified as Nisarga (20) and Roopa (21), who were travelling from Vijayapura in north Karnataka to Bengaluru to attend a job interview. Both had completed their Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm) degrees.
According to police, the accident occurred around 5 a.m. within the limits of the Tavarekere police station. According to preliminary investigations, the car carrying the women hit a road divider after its driver, Pavan, lost control of the vehicle. The car reportedly spun into the air before falling onto the road and colliding with another car coming from the opposite direction.
Four people, including driver Pavan, were travelling in the first car. Pavan and another woman sustained serious injuries in the accident. Another four people were travelling in the second car, and all of them sustained injuries.
The injured have been shifted to the district hospital in Tumakuru for treatment. Police have taken up further investigation into the incident.
It can be recalled that on October 25, a boy aged about 13 years, who was travelling in a car, died when the vehicle collided with a truck at Goonadka on the Mani-Mysuru National Highway near Sullia in Mangaluru district. Four other occupants of the car were injured in the accident and admitted to a hospital in Sullia for treatment.
A 16-year-old boy driving a car with two minor friends crashed into the rear of a CNG lorry on National Highway 48 near Anagodu, resulting in the driver’s death and serious injuries to his companions in Davanagere district on October 16.
On October 18, a Class 10 student, Hemanth, died after a speeding car entered a one-way road and hit the motorcycle he was riding pillion on.
–IANS
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