BHUBANESWAR: A man died on the spot when the car he was driving got squeezed between two trucks, a moving and a stationary one, at Palasuni on NH-16 on the city outskirts on Monday. Though the accident was caught on a CCTV camera, police are yet to ascertain the identity of the deceased.
A passer-by said many vehicles, including the car, were stranded on the highway owing to a traffic snarl when the killer truck came in at breakneck speed and rammed into two cars from behind. “While one car was thrown off the road divider and landed on to the parallel stretch, the other car hit another stationary truck in front of it,” Rabindra Mohanty, who was on his bike and barely 30 metres from the accident spot, said.
Some more injuries were reported as the speeding truck hit another car and a bike, the police said.
“The driver fled after committing the offence. The truck has been seized. The driver will soon be arrested,” an officer of Mancheswar police station said. The vehicle pile-up caused a huge traffic snarl on NH-16, which connects Bhubaneswar with Cuttack. Hundreds of vehicles were stranded for more than three hours before the police cleared the mangled remains of the car.
