Three persons — a sub-inspector of police, a constable, and a cab driver — were killed on the spot and two other police personnel were critically injured when the SUV in which they were travelling crashed into a roadside iron girder after hitting the median near a railway underbridge at Chavatapalle village of Puthalapattu mandal, about 25 km from here, on the Naidupeta-Puthalapattu National Highway on Sunday.
Superintendent of Police Y. Rishant Reddy and Deputy Superintendent of Police (Law and Order) N. Sudhakar Reddy inspected the accident site.
Mr. Sudhakar Reddy said that two batches of police personnel from Bengaluru Urban were on their way to Tirupati in two private SUVs in connection with the investigation of a drug case registered at the Shivaji Nagar police station there.