Mangaluru: Driver of lorry that claimed five lives was speaking on mobile

June 12, 2016

Mangaluru, Jun 12: Eye witnesses of last Friday's ghastly road mishap at Valachil, on the outskirts of the city, wherein five persons were killed and three others suffered serious injuries, have told police that the reckless lorry driver was using mobile phone while driving.

The container lorry was coming towards the city on the Bengaluru-Mangaluru National Highway hit the median and crossed over to the other side and rammed into two vehicles and a pedestrian.

Preliminary investigations have revealed that the lorry driver was speaking on mobile phone with someone while driving violating the traffic rules.

While the lorry reached Arkula near Valachil, the mobile phone slipped from driver's hand and fell down near his seat. The driver immediately bent down to pick it up.

In the melee he lost control over his vehicle, which crashed into the road median and ran amok. It first hit a car coming from the opposition direction on the other side of the road. The impact of collision caused the container section of the lorry to overturn onto an auto-rickshaw and a pedestrian. All three persons in the auto, the pedestrian and one person in the car died.

Among the deceased Muhammad Nazeer (29), son of Yusuf, a resident of Sajipa in Bantwal was riding the auto-rickshaw. Muhammad Salam (20), Son of Siddeeq from Nandavara, Sinan (16), son of Hameed, were travelling in the same rickshaw. Abbas (40), a resident of Vittla was on board the car. Husain (20), a resident of Adyar, was a pedestrian.

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It is so sad to find many families lose their loved ones, simply because of a reckless and drunk drivers.

not only truck drivers even for car drivers also now a days its becm a trend to talk on phone while driving. they are sitting inside and troubling others. police and system should be ruthless towards them. No other driver should touch mobile while driving.

really heart wrenching incident. victims were going in the right direction and this driver came as yamaduth and taken their lives, this driver should be given maximum punishment.

first of all lorry should be barred transporting in the day. heavy traffic in between that this careless lorry drivers driving negligently.

who issued license to him? stone him death. who will take care of the families that lost their bread winners?

inattentive person, his license must be seized and put behind bar till death. this type lorry drivers if seen anyone stop the vehicle and beat them in public.

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8 new coronavirus cases in Karnataka, total now 41

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March 24,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 24: Eight new positive coronavirus cases were confirmed in Karnataka on Tuesday, taking the tally to 41 in the state, the health department said.

"Till date 41 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state which includes one death and 3 discharged," the department said.

According the department bulletin, 37 positive patients are in isolation at designated hospitals and their condition is stable.

Of the 41 confirmed cases, six are transit passengers hailing from Kerala who have landed in airports and being treated in Karnataka.

Among the eight passengers confirmed on Tuesday also three men and a woman are from Kasaragod in Kerala with a history of travel to Dubai and Saudi Arabia respectively.

All the four had landed in Mangaluru, where they are being treated.

The others are: two men, aged 40 and 65, from Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka with travel history to Dubai;

a 56-year-old woman, a resident of Chikkaballapura district, who is a family member and co-passenger of person who tested postive with travel history to Mecca, and a 56-year-old woman, resident of Bengaluru, a contact of another person who has tested positive for the virus,

Among the 41 cases, 24 has been reported from Bengaluru, five from Dakshina Kannada, three each from Kalaburgai and Chikkaballapura, two each from Mysuru and Uttara Kannada, and one each from Kodagu and Dharwad.

All the three discharged patients are from Bengaluru, while one death was reported in Kalaburagi earlier this month, which was the country's first COVID-19 related death.

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Hope CM will take action, says DKS on BJP MLA's birthday bash

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April 11,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 11: Karnataka Congress chief D K Shivakumar on Saturda said that he was hopeful that the Karnataka Chief Minister would take stern action against BJP MLA M Jayaram--who was on Friday seen celebrating his birthday with several villagers in Gubbi taluk in Tumkur, in violation of social isolation measures and nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus outbreak.

"I am sure that the Chief Minister will take action on all these types of activities. We have already petitioned the DGP. Suo moto case should be registered immediately," the Karnataka Congress Chief told media.

Speaking about the video conference meeting that Congress President Sonia Gandhi held with all Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) presidents via video conference, he said: "She has given us directions that the party has to play its own role. She said that the party needs to be very active, apart from the government."

With regards to the farmer's struggles due to the national lockdown, the Karnataka Congress Chief said that the farmers are in a 'very grim situation'. "I appeal to all the people of Karnataka that we should go to the fields and discuss with farmers and buy the materials. Let us purchase their fruits and vegetables and distribute them at the village level."

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