4 die as car rams container truck in Telangana

HYDERABAD: Four persons died in a road accident at Indalwai in Nizamabad district in the early hours of Monday. The accident occurred when a car rammed into the rear portion of a container truck, which did not have tail lights and reflector strips, at high speed. The deceased were identified as N Ganesh, 28, a cell phone shop owner from Kondalwadi in Nanded district of Maharashtra, his brother, N Adithya, 25, an ITI student, their friends A Prakash, 29, a centring worker, also from Kondalwadi, and B Sairam, 27, a private worker from Nizamabad.
On Sunday, the trio from Kondalwadi in Nanded came to Nizamabad in Ganesh's hatchback and met Sairam. Four of them reached Hyderabad for cell phone business-related affair. The accident occurred while they were returning to Nizamabad on Sunday night. At 12.15am on Monday, the car, driven by Ganesh, rammed into a container truck from the rear at Chandrayanpalli Thanda in Indalwai mandal on the National Highway-44. “The container truck did not have the tail lights and reflector strips.
The person driving the car did not notice the container in time and rammed into it. All the four persons in the car died on the spot with severe injuries," Indalwai head constable G Srinivas said. After the accident, the truck driver abandoned the vehicle at the spot and fled from there. Police registered a case against him under Sections 304 (ii) (Culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 279 (Rash driving) of the IPC. The bodies were handed over to the family members after postmortem examination on Monday