Seven persons including two children and one woman died on the spot after a car they were travelling collided with a lorry at Pakkiripalayam village near Chengam town in Tiruvannamalai on Sunday morning. The police said that the lorry driver, whose identity is not known yet, fled the spot.
The victims were identified as R. Sathish Kumar, 40, a software engineer in Bengaluru, his two children S. Sarveshwaran, 6, and S. Sidhu, 3, S. Manikandan, 42, and S. Hemanth ,35, K. Srinivasan, 60, and S. Malar, 58.
The injured person, S. Kaviya , 35, wife of Satish Kumar and sister of Manikandan, had been admitted at the Government Medical College Hospital in Tiruvannamalai town, around 55 km from the accident spot.
