Chennai, July 25:
Six people, including a father and son, were killed and two others sustained injuries in two separate road accidents in neighbouring Kancheepuram and Chengalpattu districts of Tamil Nadu today morning.
In the first accident, three employees of a private company were killed and two hurt when the car in which they were travelling jumped the road median on to the opposite side and collided with a Vellore-bound lorry near Keelambi village on the Chennai-Bengaluru National Highway in Kancheepuram district on Friday morning.
Police said five people–four employees and a driver–were travelling in the car to attend a meeting in Chennai when the mishap occurred. The deceased were identified as. Kalaiselvi K (39), Selvaganapathi (28), both employees of a Hosur-based firm, and the driver Manohar.
Two other employees C Jayavel Nagraj (28) and Kamaraj (30) were admitted to the Kancheepuram Government hospital, where the bodies of the deceased were shifted by police and fire service personnel for post mortem.
In the other mishap, three people including a father and his teenaged son from Puducherry and another family members were killed whenn a lorry, coming behind, rammed into their car near Madurantakam in Chengalpattu district on the Tiruchy-Chennai National Highway early today.
Gopu (46) and his teenaged son Dinesh (15) and their relative Ilanchezhiyan (54), who was behind the wheels, were heading to Chennai airport to receive a relative coming from abroad, when the accident occurred.
The lorry driver, in an attempt to overtake the car, rammed into it. Under the impact, Ilanchezhiyan lost control of the vehicle and the car hit the road median and overturned, killing the father and son on the spot. Ilanchezhiyan sustained serious injuries and was rushed to the Chengalpattu government hospital, where doctors declared him dead. Police and fire service personnel shifted the bodies to the government hospital for autopsy.
The lorry driver abandoned the vehicle and fled the scene and Madurantakam police have launched search operations and analysing the CCTV footages on the highway to trace him.