Dr B Thomas (Special correspondent)
A 47-year-old motorcycle rider was killed after a speeding truck knocked down his vehicle on HAL Outer Ring Road on Thursday.
The deceased has been identified as G M Joseph Mathew, a resident of Balaji Layout and was working in a BPO at Devarabeesanahalli.
The truck driver was over speeding the vehicle when the mishap occurred and the residents blamed that the accident occurred due to narrow traffic and addition of cycle and bus lanes on Outer Ring road.
Traffic movement was affected on the busy outer ring road for sometime following the incident as the passers-by gathered on the spot and started recording the mishap on their mobile phones before alerting the police.
Senior officer visited the spot and said,the accident took place at around 9am when Mathew was going to office on Outer Ring road.
Meanwhile an over speeding truck which was behind him knocked his bike.He slipped from the bike and fell down under the wheel sustaining severe head injuries and died on the spot.
The HAL traffic police who rushed to the spot and seized the truck.
The driver abondoned the vehicle and escaped from the spot soon after the mishap.A case of reckless driving and death due to negligence has been registered against the driver and further investigating.
