One person was killed and five others injured after an oil tanker rammed into an ambulance and five cars at Nandipadu on the Adhanki-Narketpally highway in Telangana’s Nalgonda district in the early hours of Friday, according to police cited by Deccan Chronicle.
The deceased was identified as Poleti Srinivas Rao, 36, a native of Ponnuru in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district. The collision occurred after an ambulance reached the area to take a motorcyclist to hospital following an earlier fall from his motorcycle.
According to the police account, a car had also stopped at the location as people attempted to shift the injured motorcyclist into the ambulance. The speeding oil tanker then struck the ambulance and rammed into five other cars, resulting in multiple injuries and a fatality.
K Swapna, a member of the 108 ambulance staff, suffered serious injuries in the crash. She was shifted to a hospital in Hyderabad for better treatment, and her condition was reported to be serious.
Four other injured people who had been travelling in the cars were taken to a hospital in Miryalaguda. The report did not provide details about the motorcyclist’s condition or identify the tanker driver.
The incident highlights the risks faced by road users and emergency workers at accident sites, where vehicles may stop suddenly on highways to provide assistance or transfer injured people. The available police account indicates that the crash unfolded while emergency assistance was already under way, but it does not provide further details about traffic controls, the tanker’s speed assessment or the cause of the driver’s alleged overspeeding.
Police were investigating the collision. Further official details on the circumstances of the crash, the identities and conditions of all injured people, and any action against the tanker driver were not available in the supplied report.
