Five persons died and eight others got injured in two different mishaps on the Chennai-Kolkata national highway in Prakasam District of Andhra Pradesh on Thursday.
In the first accident three persons were crushed to death and four others injured when a Vijayawada-bound car from Kanippakkam collided with a lorry on the Chennai-Kolkata highway, Ongole Deputy Superintendent of Police G.Srinivasa Rao said.
In the second mishap, two persons from Kadapa were killed and four others injured when the car from Kakinada dashed against a stationary lorry at Yedugundlapadu, near here.
Chennai-bound traffic was diverted on the lanes meant for Kolkota-bound vehicles due to the ongoing upgradation of the expressway. But the car driver travelling on the western track did not notice the lorry coming on the same lane in the opposite direction, resulting in the instantaneous killing of 38-year-old Sasikiran, a doctor, and his mother-in-law, A. Vijayalakshmi(60) as also the car driver, the DSP said.
Sasikiran's father Shyamsundar, wife Madhavi and her two nieces, who were injured in the mishap, were rushed to a corporate hospital here.
The identity of the car driver was yet to be established, the DSP said, adding that the bodies of deceased were shifted to the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences for post-mortem.
P. Eshwar Reddy (57) and M.Nagaraju (35) were killed on the spot when the front tyre of their car got separated and hit a lorry parked on the road margin after the car driver applied sudden brakes, the DSP said. The injured were rushed to RIMS here. The victims were returning from Kakinada after a bride-seeing ceremony.
