A software engineer was killed in a road accident involving a water tanker in Medavakkam on Monday morning.
The accident took place at Medavakkam junction when the 22-year-old victim, R.Sriram of Tambaram Sanatorium, was on his way to work in Sholinganallur.
Traffic police investigating the case, said the youth was taking a turn at Medavakkam intersection to enter Perumbakkam Main Road to reach Sholinganallur when a water tanker rammed his motorcycle and he succumbed to injuries on the spot.
Sriram had completed his graduation this May and had joined a leading software company. He had bought his motorcycle only a fortnight ago.
His mother Meenakshi had gone to meet her husband and Sriram’s father, Ramasamy, who works for a private bank near Pudukottai on Sunday.
The couple rushed to Chennai on hearing the tragic news. Sriram has an elder brother and a younger sister.
St. Thomas Mount traffic investigation police have registered a case and are searching for the water tanker driver, who abandoned the vehicle and fled from the spot.
Accident-prone
Medavakkam intersection is accident prone due to the poor road condition.
Adding to this, the absence of an effective traffic signalling system and inadequate traffic policemen, makes riding along this stretch an ordeal for motorists everyday, residents complained.
At Pallikaranai, residents and motorists took part in a human chain to create awareness on road safety on Pallavaram-Thoraipakkam Radial Road and nearly 400 people, including students took part in the human chain that extended from Eachankadu to Kovilambakkam.
Sujatha Jayaraj, founder of AILECT, the NGO that organised the event in Pallikaranai, said that road accident statistics on East Coast Road and Rajiv Gandhi Salai (Old Mamallapuram Road) revealed that a majority of victims of road accidents were young male motorcyclists.
In a similar programme event organised by State Bank Retired and Serving Employees Forum (SBRSEF) at Palavakkam, over 100 students from Government Adi Dravidar Welfare Higher Secondary School took part.
Students held placards on traffic rules and road safety and urged the motorists to adhere to rules to ride and reach home safely.
The youth was taking a turn at Medavakkam intersection to go to Sholinganallur when a water tanker rammed his motorcycle and he succumbed to injuries on the spot
