Sunil Lohan
Three people,including security guard and a private firm employee,were killed in three separate road accidents reported across Bengaluru since late Sunday night.
A 34-year-old private company employee,identified as Gauri Shankar of M.N.Nagar,died after a speeding goods vehicle rammed his motorcycle near Super Market Circle in HMT Layout,Yeshwanthpur,within the limits of the Peenya Traffic Police Station in the early hours of Monday.
Senior officer said the accident occurred around 4.45 am when Gauri Shankar was riding his motorcycle.
The impact dragged the bike for some distance, leaving him critically injured.
Passers-by rushed him to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.Peenya traffic police have registered a case and are investigating.
In another incident,a Nepal-native security guard, Kapendra Maje,was killed after being hit by a water tanker while crossing the Varthur-Gunjur Main Road near Gandhi Circle around 3 am.
The accident occurred within the jurisdiction of the Whitefield Traffic Police Station.
Maje,who lived in Varthur, was returning home after work when the tanker,heading towards Varthur College, allegedly knocked him down and ran over him.
Though he was shifted to a hospital,doctors declared him dead on the way.Police have booked the tanker driver, identified as Pradeepappa (32),and initiated further action.
In the third incident,a 60-year-old scooter rider,Rajendra, a resident of Kannamangala,died in a self-accident within the limits of the KR Puram Traffic Police Station.
According to police,Rajendra lost control of his scooter and crashed into a road divider near Avalahalli on the national highway on Monday morning.He suffered grievous injuries and succumbed to them.
