Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
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our persons killed and six others injured in two separate accidents occurred in Kengeri and electronic city traffic police station limits on Monday.
A 34-year-old Gram Panchayath member and two of his friends who are on the way to pleasure trip were killed when the SUV they were driving lost control jumped the median and crashed into another SUV coming from the opposite direction near Bannerghatta toll on NICE road on Monday.
The deceased have been identified as Nanjegowda,35, Vinod,34 and Kumar,35 .
The injured Shivaramakrishna and Prasanna travelling in another SUV sustained injuries and admitted to the hospital for treatment.
Senior officer as DCP Traffic West, Anitha B Haddanavar,ACP West Traffic,Puttamma with Kengeri Traffic Inspector visited the spot and after inspecting the spot said that,Vinod, was gram panchayath member and resident of Shivanahalli in Kanakapura driving the SUV and his friend Nanjegowda,an autorickshaw driver and Kumar,resident of Chilour village in Ramanagara and secretary of milk association in his village .
The trio was heading to Airport to visit Goa as part of the planned pleasure trip .
Due to heavy rain the road was not visible and the car was said to be over speeding,lost control and collided with a road divider and jumped on the other side of the road and crashed into the another SUV which is heading to Hosur .
Passers-by rushed to the help and alerted Kengeri traffic police who joined the rescue operation and recovered the trio stuck in the mangled car which mangled due to the impact of the accident .
In another incident,a 42-year-old private firm employee was killed and six others injured in a serial accident occurred near Basavapura bridge on NICE road on Monday morning.
The deceased have been identified as Devaraj,along with other employees heading to work at Bommasandra industrial area in his company bus.
The driver due to bad weather failed to noticed the parked truck and crashed into it .
A car following the company bus also crashed into the bus and the driver of the car along with other passenger sustained injuries but said to be out of danger .
Passers-by rushed to the help and shifted the injured to different hospital before alerting the electronic city traffic police .
Traffic on the busy NICE road was disrupted for sometime.The police have registered a case against the bus driver and the truck driver parking the vehicle on roadside without required signage for further investigations.
Senior police officers visited the spot advised motorists to drive carefully and follow speed limits and lane discipline during the rainy season .
Meanwhile Deputy Commissioner of Police (North Division traffic ),D R Siri Gowri issued advisory for the motorists on Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) Road (B.B.Road-NH-44) under Bangalore City Police must drive their vehicles in the designated lane (Path) as shown in the figure below.Violators of traffic rules will be fined without fail.
