The automobile which crashed right into a parked tanker at Chickballapur on October 26, 2023.
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Low visibility due to dense morning mist within the space in all probability led to the accident on the outskirts of Chickballapur through which 13 folks died, the police mentioned on Thursday.
The accident occurred at 7.10 a.m. when the SUV, which was overloaded, rammed right into a tanker parked close to a visitors police station. The tanker driver had parked the automobile by the roadside and had gone to attend to nature’s name. The morning mist was dense, main to very low visibility. The SUV driver in all probability didn’t see the tanker, the police mentioned. Moreover, the tanker driver, Palani, had not switched on the parking lights. The police have arrested the tanker driver, reserving him beneath Section 304A for inflicting dying due to negligence.
The SUV driver, Narasimhappa, 40, hailing from Gorantla in Andhra Pradesh, was illegally operating a ferry service in a whiteboard automobile and had overloaded the automobile. While the automobile might carry eight individuals, 13 individuals have been travelling in it and all of them have been killed within the accident.
The police had a Herculean job figuring out the deceased, because the our bodies have been severely broken.
The deceased have been recognized as Aruna, 32, a resident of Doddaballapur, and her six-year-old son Hritvik; Narasimhamurthy, 37, who hailed from Bagepalli in Chickballapur district and was working in a salon at Kaval Byrasandra right here; Perimili Pawan Kumar, 32, from Gorantla; Venkata Subbamma, a resident of Kamakshipalya; Shantamma, 37, a garment manufacturing unit worker at Hongasandra who hailed from Puttaparthi; Rajavardhana, 15; Venkataramana, 51, a weaver at Kamakshipalya hailing from Nawabakota, Andhra Pradesh; Narayanappa, 50, a labourer working at Yelahanka and hailing from Malkavaara Palli in Andhra Pradesh; Bellala Venkatadri, 32, a wall painter residing at Bommasandra and a local of Gorantla, and his spouse Lakshmi, 20, a garment manufacturing unit employee; Ganesha, 17-year-old scholar from Gorantla; and the motive force Narasimhappa.
Relatives of the deceased who got here to declare the our bodies have been inconsolable. One of them mentioned that Narasimhamurthy had gone to drop his spouse and youngsters to his native place for the pageant and was returning to work. His relative who had come to drop him steered that he go by a bus, however Narasimhamurthy was in a rush, so he took the personal cab which was already crowded, solely to find yourself lifeless.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah introduced ₹2 lakh compensation to the households of every of the deceased.