Four killed in three accidents on ORR

Three accidents on the Outer Ring Road, Saturday night and Sunday led to the death of a couple and two others.
Two died and four were injured after this SUV hit the road divider on the ORR on Sunday | EXPRESS PHOTO
Two died and four were injured after this SUV hit the road divider on the ORR on Sunday | EXPRESS PHOTO

HYDERABAD: Three accidents on the Outer Ring Road, Saturday night and Sunday led to the death of a couple and two others.  

In Shankarpally, the journey of a family of six ended in a tragedy, as the SUV in which they were travelling turned turtle after hitting the divider on the ORR. Narsingi police said civil contractor P Narayana Goud (60) of Sadasivapet, his wife Satyavathi (55), sons Bhaskar and Bharath and daughter-in-law Harika were in the car with driver Madhu. Narayana and his wife died on the spot, while the other four suffered grievous injuries.

In Yadgirpally in Keesara, a bank manager’s son was killed while driving with friends in a new car. C Pridhvi Ravinder Raj (23), son of Andhra Bank manager C Jai Kumar, was driving home with friends when he lost control of the car. The car flipped over multiple times. Police said Raj died on the spot, while his friends Abhilash and Ramchander sustained multiple injuries.

Also in Keesara, 24-year-old Purushotham from Karimnagar was mowed down by a speeding DCM, when he was attending nature’s call late Saturday night. He was a cleaner for a truck-mounted borewell. The truck was passing via Keesara when its driver, Venkanna, parked on the side of the ORR. A speeding DCM rammed into the truck and hit Purushotham, who died. The DCM driver Jalal had tried to avoid the crash but was unable to control the vehicle.

The van dragged the truck along for some distance and Jalal got stuck between the two heavy vehicles. Two teams rushed to the spot and struggled to rescue Jalal. He was rushed to Gandhi Hospital for treatment, as was the injured Venkanna, said the police.

Speeding on the Nehru Outer Ring Road is cited by the police as one the major reasons for the frequent and large number of accidents taking place on the 158-km-long expressway.

At the year-end press conferences held by the Cyberabad and Rachakonda police recently, it was revealed that as many as 79 persons were killed in accidents that took place on the ORR. Most of them were attributed to speeding, ie more than the permissible speed limit.   

The maximum speed limit on ORR is 100 km per hour but almost all the vehicles that met with accidents were being driven at well above the prescribed speed.

The ORR, which passes through areas that fall in the Rachakonda and Cyberabad police commissionerates, runs to a length of about 158 km. The smooth eight-lane road tempts one to drive the vehicle at a high speed, giving the 100 kmph limit a damn. Hence the fatal accidents, police said. Two-wheeler riders are, however, prohibited from using the expressway. Till November 2016 the Cyberabad police have booked 9,478 cases of speeding on ORR and the Rachakonda police 4,158 cases.

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