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Jalandhar , On Monday afternoon, an overloaded truck hit the Ertiga car going ahead near Pathankot Chowk on the Amritsar-Ludhiana Highway. Two women and a child died and four people were injured in the accident. The collision was so strong that the car broke the iron pole on the footpath and went onto another road. The overloaded truck went out of control and overturned on the middle of the road and after the accident, the truck driver fled from the spot. Seven people traveling in the damaged car got stuck in the middle, the police called a welder and got the car cut and with the help of passersby took the car to the nearest hospital. Where the doctors declared all three dead. The deceased have been identified as Palak, 42, his son Piyush, 13, and Jyoti, 56, resident of Hati Gate, Amritsar, while all four – Brun, Aman, Meena and Ansh are undergoing treatment. , , Police of Station 8 have taken possession of both the vehicles and started investigation.
After struggling between life and death, Varun came out of the car and told that he has a medicine shop near Amritsar Elephant Gate. His mother-in-law Raj Rani was admitted to DMC Hospital in Ludhiana whose condition became critical on Monday. He had left Amritsar in a car with his family to meet them. His brother-in-law Aman was driving the car and his wife Palak, son Piyush, aunt Jyoti and aunt Meena were sitting behind. On the way, he was talking to his family when his car came out of Jalandhar Pathankot Chowk when a truck driver coming from behind hit the car. After the collision, the vehicle went out of control and hit an iron pole on the footpath and later collided with another road. After the accident, the car was badly damaged and all the family members got trapped in the car. Seeing him trapped in the car, people gathered and broke the glass and took him and Aman out, but all the members sitting behind the car got trapped badly and the police reached the spot and cut the car and took them out. On reaching the hospital, they came to know that their Son Piyush, wife Palak and aunt Jyoti are no more in this world. Police station 8 in-charge Gurmukh Singh said that his team’s investigating officer ASI Nirmal Singh has taken possession of the truck and car. The truck driver is absconding and the victim’s family is not in a position to give a statement. His team is busy investigating the matter. They have taken possession of the bodies and sent them to the Civil Hospital for post-mortem and the truck driver will be arrested soon.
Three kilometer jam, five minute journey turned into an hour
After the overloaded truck overturned on the road, the sacks of paddy got scattered in the middle of the road, while the police and people were busy in removing the people in the car from the middle of the road, due to which the pedestrians were troubled. There was a clash at the exit and a three kilometer long traffic jam occurred. The journey of five minutes turned into an hour. It was opened with the traffic police team and even six hours after the accident, the traffic police remained deployed on the spot.
Four people trapped in the car were taken out with a cutter, instead of helping people kept making videos.
In this accident that took place on Monday afternoon, not only three people died but the humanity of many people present at the spot was also destroyed. Only a few people came forward to help the four trapped in the car, while hundreds of people were making videos near the incident site, who were repeatedly chased away by the police, but people were not agreeing. The police explained to the people that instead of making a video, the lives of some people could be saved by making a video, so many people came forward again. One of them called a welder and with his help he cut the car and took out the four people.
The driver’s brother-in-law’s head and woman’s leg were injured by the son’s hand.
After the accident, police and SFS admitted the injured to Kapoor Hospital for treatment. Driver Jasneev Kapoor said that the injured are being treated. Aman’s head and Varun’s hand, his son Ansh’s hand and the woman’s leg are injured at several places and the condition of two-three is critical. He is engaged in treating the injured along with his team.
