3 dead, 21 injured as truck hits LMV on Chennai expressway

Bengaluru: Three persons were killed and 21 sustained injuries when a speeding truck rammed their light commercial vehicle on the newly built Bengaluru-Chennai expressway near Kalkere village in KGF Monday evening.

Police are yet to reveal the identity of the victims and the injured. The accident occurred around 7pm; both vehicles were moving in Chennai direction, police said. The truck driver and his assistants fled the scene, leaving behind the vehicle.
Preliminary probe revealed the driver of the light commercial vehicle, in which around 25 persons were travelling, took a sudden right turn, and the truck rammed into it.

"The light commercial vehicle was moving in the middle lane while the truck was in the right. When the commercial vehicle took a sudden right turn, the truck directly rammed into it. Both vehicles were speeding," a senior police officer said.

The victims and the injured belonged to a catering house, and they had come to work at the foundation stone-laying ceremony for a proposed amenity centre. The youths, after completing their work, left the venue and met with the accident hardly after travelling around 500 metres," the officer said.