An autorickshaw driver met with a tragic end and three passengers were injured after the vehicle reportedly turned turtle after colliding with a sambar deer that sped across their path at Kadapara along the Punnekkad-Thattekkad Road within the Keerampara panchayat limits at Kothamangalam in Ernakulam around 10 p.m. on on Monday.
The deceased was identified as Vigil P.N., 41, of Elamblassery in Mamalakandam ward of Kuttampuzha panchayat, some 15 km from Kothamangalam town. He was taking a person from his neighbourhood who had sustained a wound on his hand to a hospital in Kothamangalam town.
