Kasaragod, Jan 21: A 36-year-old woman and her teenaged daughter were crushed to death and three others sustained critical injuries in a head-on collision involving a truck and an autorickshaw, near Poinachi, here on Sunday.
The mishap occurred around 4 a.m. as the autorickshaw collided with the truck bearing Maharashtra registration number.
The multi-axle vehicle overturned on the three-wheeler killing Shobha and her daughter Vismaya, 13, a Clas VIII student of Chattamchal Higher Secondary School. Shobha’s husband Rajan, 45, and the auto driver Abdul Khader, 40, sustained grievous injuries.
One of the truck crew also suffered minor injuries, as the vehicle overturned on the National Highway after the collision, police at the Vidyanagar station here said.
Braving darkness around, the police on patrol duty at the nearby Poinachi and the Fire and Rescue men, in a swift step, called for the service of a crane to lift the overturned truck before extricating the bodies of the woman and her daughter and her seriously injured husband and the auto driver, they said.
The couple and their daughter were proceeding to the house of their elder daughter Maya at Pullur, near Kanhangad, from where they were planning to visit the temple town of Parassinikadavu to take part in a ritual. Police have taken the truck driver into custody in connection with the mishap.
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