Coimbatore
According to police, Srinivasan, 58, who works at the Madras Atomic Power Station in Kalpakkam, was heading to Bengaluru with his wife Lalitha, 50, a government school teacher, their daughter, Swathy Shri, 24, a software engineer in Bengaluru, and her four-month-old daughter in a car driven by a person called Suresh Kumar, 50, of Kalpakkam.
Around 5 am, the car crashed into the stationary fruit-laden truck near the RTO check post at Zuzuvadi. In the impact, Srinivasan and the driver were crushed to death on the spot, while the baby was declared brought dead at the Hosur Government Hospital. Other members of the family were rushed to a private hospital in a critical condition.
Police said Srinivasan was going to Bengaluru to leave his daughter at her in-law’s house when tragedy struck. Preliminary enquiries revealed that the driver had fallen asleep at the wheels.
However, the public blamed the parking of vehicles at the Zuzuvadi check post on the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border for registration for the frequent mishaps.
The Hosur police have registered a case and further inquiries were on. Traffic was disrupted on the stretch for a while due to the mishap.
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