6 die in Faridabad as car rams truck

FARIDABAD: Six people including five of one family died in the wee hours of Wednesday when the car they were travelling in rammed into a stationary truck near the Mewla Chowk on NH-2. The accident took place around 5am on Wednesday. According to police officials, the poor lighting on the stretch may have been the primary reason behind the mishap.
Brothers Hambir (30) and Virender Singh (24), their children Pankaj (12) and Shivan (6), and cousin Ashok (20) were returning after attending a neighbour's wedding in Mathura.While the five died in the accident along with the car driver, Bhagat Singh (22), the lone survivor 19-year-old Dinesh was referred to the AIIMS Trauma Centre from the B K Civil Hospital and is reportedly in a critical condition.
Kishan Kumar, SHO of the Sector 31 police station, told Times City that the overloaded truck had run out of fuel and was parked in the middle of the road without parking lights. As the stretch is not well-lit, the officer added, the driver of the Maruti 800 in which the family was travelling had no time to react. The car hit the truck from behind and was reduced to a pulp.
Hambir's 70-year-old father, Babulal, was in a state of shock. Fighting his tears, he recounted that when their neighbour in Sehatpur Village invited them to a wedding all the young men in the family decided to attend it. "I did not go because I'm old and unwell. Had I known this would be their last journey I would have never allowed them to go. The festivities went on till late last night, but they started early from Mathura to avoid the rush. We have lost four earning male members of the family. I don't know how I'll face their mother,'' the septuagenarian farmer said.
So far, no arrests have been made in the case and the driver of the truck is absconding.