Sunday, October 27, 2019

Woman falls in bid to avoid pothole, run over

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:27.10.2019

In a tragic incident on Friday night, a woman riding pillion with her husband near Poonamallee died after the man braked to avoid a pothole and she was thrown to the ground. A container truck ran over her, police said. Police identified the woman as Devi, 35, whose husband Ramadoss is a conductor with the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) depot in Kancheepuram.

Ramadoss, 40, and Devi were headed to his parents’ house at Cheyyar in Tiruvannamalai district for Diwali when the accident occurred. At Sadayappa Kalyana Mantapam near Nazarathpet, witnesses later told police, Ramadoss spotted an almost five-ft-wide pothole at the last minute and braked suddenly. A container truck, which was about 20 ft long, was close behind their vehicle and slammed into the twowheeler, police said, quoting witnesses.

While Ramadoss fell to the left, his wife was thrown to the road on to the right and came under the wheels of the container truck. She was killed instantly. Ramadoss was wearing a helmet, police said The residents of Kumananchavadi near Poonamallee planned to travel on the scooter till Kancheepuram and take a bus to Tiruvannamalai, a police officer said. A team of the Poonamallee traffic investigation wing soon arrived at the spot and sent the woman’s body to the government hospital in Chromepet for autopsy.



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The injured Ramadoss was admitted to the same hospital. A case was registered and police began a search for the container truck driver who abandoned the vehicle and fled after the accident.

In a similar accident the same night, a 58-year-old woman riding pillion on her husband’s two-wheeler died after the bike skid on the Padi flyover and she was thrown to the ground. She suffered head injuries and was rushed to the Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital where she died. Police identified the victim as Kalyani, a resident of Kolathur.

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