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ILL-FATED: The car which rammed a bus shelter on GST Road in Tambaram Sanatorium on Friday. TAMBARAM: Three persons, including two women, were killed in road accidents involving cars engaged by business process outsourcing (BPO) firms in separate accidents in the southern suburbs on Friday morning. While two persons were killed in an accident on the Grand Southern Trunk (GST) Road at Tambaram Sanatorium, a woman pedestrian was knocked down by a car on the East Coast Road at Neelankarai. At Neelankarai, Chellammal (50) was hit by a speeding jeep (Mahindra Bolero) when she was crossing the East Coast Road around 5.30 a.m. to reach a tea stall. The jeep, driven by 22-year-old Arokiaraj, was speeding towards Chennai to drop employees of a call centre at home. The victim was a resident of Bharathi Nagar. In Tambaram Sanatorium, an Ambassador car ploughed into a group of people waiting at the bus shelter opposite the Government Hospital for Thoracic Medicine. S. Jayalakshmi (53) was killed on the spot and P. Babu (35), a painter, died on way to hospital. Jayalakshmi, a worker at GHTM, was staying in Pallavaram and had just arrived by a Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus for work. Senior doctors at GHTM described her as sincere and soft-spoken and the news shocked all. Babu of Lakshmipuram in Chromepet was awaiting bus for Tambaram, traffic police said. After investigations, the police said the car was running at a great speed. He tried to overtake a vehicle and swerved to the left, when he lost control. Two persons — Sekar and Meghanathan — were injured, but said to be out of danger. Driver Tulasiraman (24) has been arrested. He was on his way to pick up employees from their houses in East Tambaram to their office in Guindy. Private logistics firmsThe vehicles in both the accidents were engaged by leading BPO firms through private logistics firms to transport their employees. Residents of several localities often complain that such vehicles, many of them latest with powerful engines, seem to be a law unto themselves. Traffic police said they had received several complaints of rash driving and overspeeding by vehicles engaged by BPO firms. As most of the vehicles operated at odd hours, they did not have sufficient manpower to crack a whip on them. Even in the rare instance of pulling up an errant driver, they could not detain the vehicle for long because of women employees travelling. The traffic police said some logistics companies took the initiative to display telephone numbers to be contacted if the vehicle indulged in overspeeding or rash driving. But the size of the display was small and could hardly be taken note of, given the speed of the vehicles. In some other instances, the numbers were stuck off deliberately by drivers. The police said it was up to BPO companies and logistics firms to make drivers comply with safety norms.
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