AHMEDABAD: Four women were killed in an accident on the Bagodara-Dhandhuka highway in Ahmedabad district when the car in which they were travelling rammed a stationary truck in the small hours of Monday.
Three of the deceased were from
Ghatlodia
in Ahmedabad and one was from
Gandhinagar.
The Ghatlodia victims were Payal Patel, a resident of Saundarya Tower; Shilpa Patel, a resident of Shilpgram Apartments; and Chetna Modi, a resident of Yagnpurushnagar Society. The other deceased, Bhavna Gajjar, was a resident of Raysan in Gandhinagar.
The victims were aged between 35 and 45 and were on a pilgrimage, said an officer of the
Dhandhuka
police station. The cop said that the driver of the women’s car may have dozed off while driving, causing the vehicle to run into the truck. The accident occurred near Haripura Patiya on the highway. According to the
FIR
filed with Dhandhuka police, Chandrakant Rathod drove in speed and negligently. The impact of the accident was so severe that locals and 108 staffers had to break parts of the car to pull out the bodies. All the four women died on the spot. Rathod has been hospitalized .
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