A automobile collided with tractor-trolley on the Sugar Mill flyover on NH 44 in Punjab. (File)
Phagwara:
Two folks, together with an Australia-based NRI, died and one sustained critical accidents when the taxi they had been travelling in collided with a sugarcane-loaded tractor-trolley on the Sugar Mill flyover on Nationwide Freeway 44 right here, police mentioned on Friday.
The incident occurred on Wednesday night time, ensuing within the demise of NRI Dilpreet Singh (28) and the taxi driver, Yugraj Masih (38), they mentioned.
Mr Singh’s mom, Gurinder Kaur, sustained critical accidents, Investigating Officer (IO) and Assistant Sub-Inspector of Metropolis Police Station Phagwara, Jatinder Pal, mentioned.
Ms Kaur had travelled to Australia in November to fulfill her son who was settled in Melbourne, he added.
Mr Singh had not too long ago obtained everlasting residency in Australia and was returning together with his mom to their dwelling in Mannequin City Extension, Dugri Highway, Ludhiana, when the accident occurred, the officer mentioned.
Mr Singh’s father, Harpreet Singh, instructed police that his spouse had known as him round 9:15 pm on Wednesday to tell him that they’d simply left the airport in Amritsar and had been within the taxi.
He acquired one other name from his spouse at 11:33 pm that night time, informing him in regards to the accident, the ASI mentioned.
Ms Kaur sustained critical accidents and was initially hospitalised at Civil Hospital Phagwara however was later shifted to DMC, Ludhiana, as her situation was crucial.
She had a damaged jaw and several other different critical accidents from the accident, mentioned the ASI, who met her on the hospital in Ludhiana on Thursday.
On Harpreet Singh’s criticism, a case was registered beneath related provisions of the legislation in opposition to the absconding tractor driver, the ASI mentioned.
The tractor-trolley was impounded and the driving force can be arrested quickly, he added.
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