Tile-laden truck veers off road in Zirakpur, leaves 3 dead
Three persons, including a minor boy, were killed when a speeding trailer truck veered off the main Patiala-Zirakpur highway and hit a building before overturning in an empty plot near the Lohgarh turn in the wee hours of today.
The truck that rammed into a boundary wall at Zirakpur on Wednesday. NITIN MITTAL
Two UP labourers, Khurshid (25) and Bhai Lal (24), breadwinners of their families, who were resting outside a building on the roadside, were mowed down. A 15-year-old boy, Akash, who was inside the truck cabin, fell off the window and was crushed under a mound of tiles.
The driver, Habib Khan, a resident of Bikaner, and the helper of the vehicle too suffered injuries.
Bhai Lal &Khursid
Eyewitnesses said the truck, coming from Banur to the Zirakpur side, at a high speed suddenly veered off the main road near a turn and grazed past a “dharamkanta” where the labourers were resting. The truck, after going out of control of the driver, razed an electricity pole, rammed a boundary wall ahead and overturned in an empty plot.
“Probably, the driver failed to control the tile-laden trailer at a turn or he fell asleep. The labourers did not get time to save their lives. A liquor bottle was found in the cabin of the truck,” an eyewitness said.
