Parmesh S jain
Four students pursuing Bachelor of Business Administration were killed on the spot while two others serious injured when the car they were traveling lost control due to over speeding jumped the divider and collided with the truck head on near Attur gate on National highway 75 in the outskirts of the city in the wee hours of Wednesday.
The deceased have been identified as,Vaishnavi, Bharath,Cyril and Venkat,The injured Siri Krishna and Ankita Reddy were admitted to private hospital in Hosakote and said to be critical .
The Impact of the accident was so high that the car bearing Tamil Nadu Registration was mangled and the police and passers-by have to struggle hard to pull out the bodies stuck inside .
The victims hailed from Chittoor and Madanapalli are students of Garden city college and staying in a Paying guest accommodation.All the victims aged between 21 to 23 years.
Probe revealed that the victims were on a joy ride late in the night and had visited Coffee day at Narasapura near Kolar before returning back to the city at around 2 am .
While reaching the attur gate Venkat who was driving the car lost control and jumped the divider before colliding with the truck .
The Hosakote rural police who are probing further found few bottles of liquor inside the car and suspected that it could be a case of drunk and driving .
The police are awaiting post mortem report and also team of vehicle inspectorate report to ascertain the cause of the accident and investigation is on said a senior officer.
