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Three students killed, five others hurt in road accident

Staff Reporter

Overcrowded jeep mostly with students hanging on to it meets with mishap

ANANTAPUR: Three students, all girls, were killed and five others were injured seriously, when the jeep in which they were travelling was brushed by a mini truck between Thippepalli and Nuthimadugu villages in Kambadur mandal of the district on Thursday.

According to the police and information reaching here, the jeep packed with about 40 passengers, mostly high school students, was on the way to Nuthimadugu from Thippepalli village.

As the jeep was jam-packed most of the students were hanging on the jeep by keeping their feet on specially fitted rod for the purpose.

As the jeep packed with passengers was half way through the destination, a mini truck coming in the opposite direction moving at a high speed rubbed the students hanging onto the jeep forcibly.

The truck driver did not get down the road to give sufficient passing way to the jeep.

RTC ignores pleas?

As a result of the truck rubbing with the jeep with heavy force several students were tossed up in the air and were thrown onto the road due to the intensity.

While three girls were killed on the spot, five others were injured seriously.

The students killed were identified as Nagamani (15), Eswaramma (14) and Varalaxmi (14). The first girl was studying in ninth class and the other two were eighth class students.

The intensity of the accident was so severe that the brain of one of the students killed was spilled on the road. Of the five injured students, two were rushed to the General Hospital at Anantapur after first-aid at the Government Hospital at Kalyanadurg and the remaining three students were being treated at Kalyanadurg.

Travelling by hanging on to the jeep is a routine practice for high school students of Thippepalli and surrounding villages, who are studying in Zilla Parishad High School at Nuthimadugu.

The pleas by villagers of Thippepalli and other surrounding villages to the APSRTC for plying buses have fallen on deaf ears.

The RTC's calculations on `viability' of the route have kept the wheels of progress away from the villages.

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