Six friends from Indore, who had planned a four-day trip for the long weekend, were killed after the car they were travelling in veered out of control, jumped the divider and crashed into a truck on the opposite lane on a national highway in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district on Friday morning.
The accident took place around 5 am near Chirchari village on the Nagpur-Raipur national highway when a group of seven friends were travelling in an Ertiga from Indore to visit the Puri temple in Odisha. They had visited Ujjain on Thursday.
“It was raining at the time. The driver, Sagar Yadav, may have been driving all night, having left Indore the previous day. We suspect he lost control or may have had poor visibility of the road due to the heavy rain. Their car jumped the divider, which is less than a foot high, and a truck coming from the opposite end hit one side of the car,” said a police official from the Baghnadi police station.
While the airbags saved Sagar’s life, the rest of the six occupants were killed. The local police said that the accident site was not in the list of blind or accident-prone spots.
Five of the friends have been identified as Akash Maurya (28) from Indore, Govind Punamchand (33) from Ratlam, Aman Rathore (26) from Indore, Nitin Yadav (34) from Indore, and Sangram Kesari from Neelkantpur in Odisha. The sixth deceased is yet to be identified.
