Monday , December 23 2024

Road accident: Activa-riding husband and wife hit by a speeding truck, people beat up the driver

Amritsar: A speeding truck crushed a couple riding an Activa on the Udaipur flyover under Sultanwind police station. Meanwhile, both of them died on the spot.

The people gathered at the incident site beat up the truck driver and handed him over to the police. The police have registered a case against the accused truck driver and arrested him. The deceased have been identified as Amandeep Singh and Harpreet Kaur, residents of Chowk Laxmansar Neel Wali Gali. The arrested truck driver has been identified as Gurpreet Singh, resident of village Bhaini Gilan, district Amritsar. The deceased husband and wife were returning home on Activa after paying obeisance at Gurudwara Kartarpur. At present the police have registered the case and started action.

Amritpal Singh, brother of the deceased, told that his brother and sister-in-law were returning home in their Activa on Tuesday evening after paying obeisance from Gurudwara Kartarpur. Meanwhile, when they reached Daburji flyover, a speeding truck coming from behind hit them. Due to this he died on the spot. After committing the incident, the accused truck driver was about to run away from the spot when the people gathered there suppressed him. The accused neither had any driving license nor any document. He has demanded that the owner of the accused truck driver should also be named in this case, because he had given the truck to a person who does not have any documents. ASI Ashwani Kumar said that the accused has been arrested and a case has been registered against him and further action is being taken.