Three members of a family were killed after a trailer ran over their motorcycle near Para Balaji on National Highway 158 in Bhilwara district on Wednesday evening, while the driver fled the scene, police said.
The victims were identified as Rukma Devi, 40, her son Govind, 20, and her nephew Roshan, 23. All three were residents of Galiyan ka Kheda village in the Badnor police station area.
The crash occurred near Para village square on the Asind-Badnor highway as the family was returning from Asind after shopping. They were travelling towards their ancestral village in the Patan area when the trailer hit their motorcycle, according to Badnor police station in-charge Shambhu Dayal Meena.
The three victims died at the spot. Badnor police moved their bodies to Asind Community Hospital, where post-mortems were conducted before the bodies were handed over to their families.
Police seized the trailer after the crash, but its driver fled. A search was under way to trace and arrest him, police said.
The incident has added another fatal collision involving a heavy commercial vehicle to the risks faced by two-wheeler users on highway stretches connecting towns and villages in the district. The police account, however, did not provide details about the trailer’s speed, the road conditions, the precise cause of the collision or whether any traffic violations had been established.
The investigation will now focus on locating the driver and establishing the circumstances of the crash. Police said efforts to trace him were continuing.
