Three killed in Truck Car Accident at Torsem

Opening of 2009 is not going good for goan roads. Three youth's of Usmanabad Maharashtra lost their lives at Torsem Goa in an accident yesterday afternoon. Indica car(Reg. No: MH-25,R-2154) in which three were travelling was dashed head on collision with tipper truck(Reg.No: GA-03,T-4240) in front of government high school Torsem. Truck then rammed into road side trees. Two from the occupants of car named Nitin Sathe(28) and Santosh Suryavanshi(27) were killed on the spot and third one named Chetan Mandelkar(25) breathed last on way to hospital.With the help of fire personnel of Pernem ,police removed bodies from the ill fated car. Truck driver named Kumar Rathore who fled from the scene after accident is being searched by police.The bodies are preserved at GMC morgue and will be handed over to relatives after postmortem. The case is under investigation of Pernem Police Station.

There was no hearse van available to shift the deceased bodies. Pernem Municipality has one hearse van which is beyond repair, this thing was major highlight of the incident. The bodies of the deceased were lying for nearly one and half hour at the scene.