Bengaluru road accidents on the Tumakuru and Ballari roads have claimed two lives in separate crashes, including that of a 19-year-old college student and a 42-year-old woman, according to traffic police. The incidents occurred late Saturday and early Sunday at Parle-Gate on Tumakuru Road and near Jakkur on Ballari Road.
In the first crash, Bhavishya Sharma, a B.Com student at Christ University, was killed after a truck hit the motorcycle he was travelling on near Parle-Gate on Tumakuru Road in the early hours of Sunday. Police said Sharma was staying in a hostel in Bengaluru, while his parents lived in Dubai.
Sharma was travelling with seven friends on four motorcycles from Koramangala towards Shivagange hill for a trek, police said. The truck struck the motorcycle from behind, causing Sharma, who was riding on the right side, to fall onto the road. The truck then ran over him, killing him at the spot. Anushka, who was seated behind him, fell from the motorcycle and sustained injuries, according to the police.
The Peenya traffic police arrested the truck driver and seized the vehicle. The police account identifies the collision from behind as the immediate cause of the fatal crash. Further details about the condition of the injured passenger were not provided in the report.
The second fatal crash took place on Saturday night near Jakkur on Ballari Road, where a car collided with a motorcycle carrying Gayithri, her husband Narasareddy and their daughter Harika Reddy. The family, originally from Gauribidanur, was returning to Yelahanka from a relative’s home in Jakkur Layout when the collision occurred.
Police said the car was travelling at high speed when it hit the motorcycle. The impact threw the couple and their daughter from the two-wheeler, leaving them injured. Local residents took all three to a hospital, but doctors confirmed that Gayithri had died on the way, according to the Yelahanka traffic police. The report did not provide details about the injuries suffered by Narasareddy and Harika Reddy.
The Yelahanka traffic police attributed the crash to excessive speed and negligent driving. The car driver was arrested and the car was taken into custody. In both cases, police action has followed the fatal collisions, with the vehicles involved seized as investigations continue.
