3 of family killed in car accident

Coimbatore: Three members of a family were killed and three others suffered injuries after the car in which they were travelling rammed into a truck from behind at Vellakoil in Tirupur district on Saturday morning.

The deceased were identified as Mayilsamy, 39, his wife Indhu, 27 and his mother Kousalya, 60, of Singnallur in Coimbatore. Mayilsamy’s son Guru Gowtham, 12, daughter Ramya Gandhimathi, 10, and his sister Kalaivani, 35, are undergoing treatment at the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital .

Mayilsamy, who was working in Dubai, had returned due to the pandemic. The accident happened when the family members were going to Thanjavur to visit temples there. “Mayilsamy was behind the wheel. Due to heavy rain, visibility was low on the busy Trichy Road. Truck driver R Babu of Trichy was repairing the vehicle, which had suffered a breakdown. Mayilsamy did not notice the parked truck and rammed it from behind around 4.30am. Mayilsamy, Indhu and Kousalya died on the spot,” a police officer said.

The bodies were handed over to the family following postmortem.

The Vellakoil police registered a case and picked up Babu for interrogation.


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