Three graduates from Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, working for different companies, died in a road accident while another was critically injured at Pahadisharieff on Outer Ring Road (ORR) here on Friday.
They were going from Hyderabad to Khammam in a car to attend a friend’s marriage when it hit a DCM van in the front on the ORR near Tukkuguda crossroads around 7.40 a.m. “After hitting the van on left side, the car rammed the ORR railing and flung into air before landing on the ground,” Pahadisharieff Inspector Laxmikanth Reddy said.
Raviteja, Suryateja, Rohith and Kiran got trapped inside the crushed car. Death was instant for the first two. Rohith and Kiran were rushed to a private hospital. While Rohith succumbed to his injuries, Kiran is battling for life.
Earlier, five persons travelling in a car got killed when it rammed a stationary lorry at Nandigama on city fringes.
Four of a family — one of them discharged from hospital after medical treatment for some ailment — and the driver of the car they were travelling in died when it rammed a stationary lorry on Hyderabad outskirts.
The accident occurred on the sub-road of National Highway near MSN company at Nandigama, 50 km from Hyderabad. Death was instant for four of them as the car crashed into the parked lorry from behind and got stuck underneath it.
Victims were identified as Somanna, Narsamma, Giddamma, Somesh and the car driver Mallesh. Sommanna got discharged from a hospital in Hyderabad on Thursday evening having undergone treatment for a few days.
His family members were taking him back home in Kurnool and hired the car. Driver Mallesh hails from Guduru village of Chevella on Hyderabad outskirts.
