Youth dies, three hurt in mishaps

Our Correspondent

Hariana (Hoshiarpur), Apr 20

A youth was killed while three others were seriously injured in two separate accidents that occurred here in the past 24 hours. One of the injured lost a leg in the accident.

The first incident took place late last night on the Hariana-Dholwaha road in which two youths were seriously injured when their scooter was hit by a tractor-trailer loaded with timber near the local Heera Colony.

As per information, Sukhmanjit Singh, a resident of Noshehra village, and Vivek, a resident of Abhowal village, who were riding a scooter, were coming from Hariana. According to eyewitnesses, near the Noshehra road, the tractor-trailer collided with their scooter and both were seriously injured. Vivek lost one of his legs in the mishap. They were taken to a local hospital from where they were referred to a super specialty hospital. Vivek is under treatment at the DMC, Ludhiana, and Sukhmanjit at another hospital in Hoshiarpur.

In the second case, a youth was killed and another injured in an accident on the Hariana-Dasuya road this afternoon. In a statement given to the police, deceased’s uncle Bhupinder Kumar, a resident of Kang Mai, said Vinay Kumar (21) was staying in Kang Mai with them for 10 years. Today he left for Hariana on his motorcycle for some work. He (Bhupinder) was also going with him on the former’s motorcycle. When they reached near Simran dharam kanda, a rashly driven car coming from the Hariana side reportedly hit a man, Jaswinder Singh of Hajipur, who was sitting on a table kept outside a kiosk on the roadside. The car driver was driving the vehicle on the wrong side of the road. The victim got seriously injured in the mishap.

Afterwards, when the driver tried to flee the spot, the car hit his nephew’s motorcycle. Vinay died on the spot and the car driver escaped from the spot. On the basis of Bhupinder’s statement, the police have filed an FIR against the car driver under Sections 337, 304-A, 279 and 427 of the IPC.