HYDERABAD: The super busy Begumpet-Secunderabad road got jammed for hours on Thursday morning when a senior citizen came under an APSRTC bus wheel while trying to get down on the S.D. Road.
The person was identified as S. Narayana Rao (78), a retired BHEL employee, the police said. The man got down from the RTC bus at S. D. Road to go a private hospital when he came under the front wheel, Begumpet SI, P. Shiva Prasad said. He died on the spot. Family members of the victim informed the police that the man was suffering from kidney ailment and was on dialysis for the last few months.
The Begumpet police reached the spot and completed the legal formalities and shifted the body to Gandhi Hospital mortuary. Additional traffic policemen were rushed to the spot to streamline the traffic flow and open up new routes as the vehicular traffic got stranded on either side.
In another road accident at Sainikpuri, an intermediate student, Swetha Anjali (16) was crushed to death by a DCM van in the afternoon, the police said. The teenager was going on a two-wheeler along with her friend when she applied sudden brake and fell on the road and came under the DCM vehicle and died, the police said. The DCM driver fled soon after the accident.
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