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Accident snuffs out lives of woman, daughter

Staff Reporter

Photo: V. Sudershan

The mangled remains of the car which rammed into a stationary truck at Ridge Road in New Delhi on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: A 45-year-old woman and her minor daughter were killed and two other members of the family sustained serious injuries in a road accident on Ridge Road here on Sunday. The condition of the injured was said to be serious.

The accident took place around 10-30 a.m. when Vivek Arora was on his way home along with his wife Poonam Arora and daughters Shivangi and Diksha in their Maruti-800 car. Mr. Arora, who was reportedly driving at high speed, apparently lost control over the wheel and rammed the car into a stationary goods truck on Ridge Road in the Chanakyapuri area. The impact reduced the car to a mangled piece of metal.

Some passers-by informed the police about the accident. A Police Control Room jeep extricated them out and rushed them to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital where Poonam Arora and Shivangi were declared brought dead. Vivek Arora and Diksha were later shifted to All-India Institute of Medical Sciences’ Trauma Centre and were unfit for statement. They were reported to have sustained serious head injuries.

The Aroras had gone to meet their relatives at Rajender Nagar on Saturday and were returning to their Vasant Kunj home in the morning when tragedy struck.

The truck, bearing a Haryana registration number, had come from Mumbai and was parked on the road after the goods had been downloaded at Karol Bagh. The police have detained the truck driver and are interrogating him about the sequence of events leading up to the accident. “The driver has been detained for questioning, but it seems that the car was coming at a high speed and rammed into the stationary truck. Prima facie, the truck driver does not seem to be at fault,” said a police officer.

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