4 of family among 5 killed in car crash

Deepender Deswal

Tribune News Service

Hisar, March 21

Five persons, including four members of a family, were killed in a road accident near Durjanpur village on the Hisar-Sirsa highway (NH 9) on Wednesday.

Those killed have been identified as Om Prakash, 60, his brother Raghuvir, 45, Om Prakash’s sons Praveen, 30, and Radhe Shyam, 25, besides driver Vikas, all residents of Kathmandi in Fatehabad town.

The police said the victims were headed to a Hisar hospital after Om Prakash suffered a heart attack on Wednesday morning. They first took him to a local doctor who referred him to the Hisar hospital.

A tyre of the car, which was being driven at a high speed, burst and the driver lost control of the vehicle. The car jumped the divider and collided with an oncoming Haryana Roadways bus. All occupants of the car died on the spot.

The police took the badly mutilated bodies to hospitals in Agroha and Hisar for post-mortem examination.

According to sources Vikas, a neighbour of Om Prakash, had purchased the car recently.