Dehradun: Six students died and one got seriously injured after a truck and an Innova car collided near the ONGC intersection of the Thana Cantt area at 2 am on Tuesday. Police registered a case and are on the hunt for the driver who is at large.
The six students who died are 19-year-old Guneet, a resident of Lok GMS Road, 23-year-old Kunal Kukreja, a resident of Rajendra Nagar Dehradun, 23-year-old Navya Goyal, a resident of Anand Chowk Tilak Road, 24-year-old Atul Agarwal, a resident of Kalidas Road, 20-year-old Kamakshi from Kawali and 24-year-old Rishabh Jain, a resident of Rajpur Road.
Siddhesh Agarwal (25) from the Rajpur Road is injured and is currently undergoing treatment. The accident was so severe that the car was blown to pieces.
On receiving information, police reached the spot, took out the students trapped inside the car and immediately rushed them to the Government Doon Medical College Hospital. Upon reaching the hospital, doctors declared six students to be 'brought dead'. Agarwal is under observation, police said.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the collision took place when the truck rammed into the Innova with a speeding force shattering the car into pieces. Police had to literally cut the car, take out the bodies of the victims and rush them to the hospital.
Superintendent Of Police (SP) City, Pramod Kumar said that the victims of the accident study at a college in Dehradun. "We informed the families of the deceased late at night. We are trying to trace the truck driver who fled from the spot after the accident," he added.
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