Summary:
An accident took place on the Kutchery road in Garhwa town on Monday morning.
A truck driver mysteriously fell off the driving seat of a running truck in Jharkhand’s Garhwa district and the vehicle ran over an old woman out on a morning walk.
Both the driver and the woman died on the spot.
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An accident took place on the Kutchery road in Garhwa town on Monday morning.
A truck driver mysteriously fell off the driving seat of a running truck in Jharkhand’s Garhwa district and the vehicle ran over an old woman out on a morning walk.
Both the driver and the woman died on the spot.
The truck finally stopped after hitting the walls of a small bridge and an electric pole and damaging the electric transmission lines near 500 metres ahead on the Garhwa-Nagar Untari road.
The exact reason for the driver falling from the truck, which was on its way to Renukut from Jamshedpur, could not be immediately ascertained.
The Garhwa police have begun investigation in this regard.
This is the second such incident in Garhwa within a week.
A day after Diwali, the driver and the cleaner of a truck had abandoned the speeding vehicle by jumping off it the vehicle hit a villager on National Highway-75.
The truck later had gone on to hit two others.