COIMBATORE: Former AIADMK Minister Dindigul C Sreenivasan's granddaughter died in a road accident on Mettupalayam - Coonoor Road near Kallar in Coimbatore on Thursday evening.
Police said that the car, in which Sreenivasan's grand daughter was travelling along with her husband and five other relatives, met with the accident when the driver lost control and the car hit the roadside bund and overturned on Thursday around 5.45 pm.
The family was returning to Arapalayam in Madurai after a trip to Ooty.
The deceased has been identified as Divyapriya (29).
According Police, Divyapriya was the granddaughter of former AIADMK Minister Sreenivasan, and she was residing with her family members at Arapalayam in Madurai.
On May 20, Divyapriya, her husband Karthik Raja (30) and five other family members including an 8 year-old boy, went to Udhagamandalam in the Nilgiris district. After spending two days at the hill town, they were returning to Arapalayam from Udhagamandalam on Thursday evening.
Karthik's younger brother Parthiban, who was at the wheel of the car lost control of the vehicle when it approached the second hairpin bend near Kallar on the Coonoor-Mettupalayam ghat road. The vehicle hit the roadside bund and overturned.
Divyapriya sustained severe injuries and was declared brought dead at Mettupalayam GH. Her husband Karthik Raja and family members Parameswari, Valarmathi, Ishwarya and others sustained injuries and were treated at Mettupalayam GH and later shifted to a private hospital in Coimbatore. Police said that the condition of all the others was stable.
Mettupalayam Police registered a case and further investigation is on.