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Two killed in accidents

Special Correspondent

TAMBARAM: Two youths riding motorcycles were killed in separate accidents on arterial roads in the southern suburbs of Chennai on Saturday.

In the first accident that took place on Velachery Main Road at Pallikaranai at 10 a.m., M. Senthilnathan (24) was hit by a lorry laden with coconut fronds and bound for Chennai from Kanyakumari.

In the impact, the motorcycle got stuck to the lorry and was dragged for more than 100 metres, the police said. Senthilnathan was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital.

Shanmugha Raj, the lorry driver, was arrested on charges of causing death owing to rash and negligent driving under Section 304 (a) of the Indian Penal Code.

Senthilnathan was a resident of Velachery and was working as an engineer in a software company in Kaarapakkam.

He was going to a friend’s house in Medavakkam. Traffic on the road was hit for more than one hour following the accident.

Dies on the spot

At 5.15 p.m., C.Vishnuraj (22) fell off his two-wheeler and sustained head injuries when the bike rammed a steel barricade on the GST Road opposite National Institute of Siddha, Tambaram Sanatorium. He died on the spot.

Hailing from Gobichettipalayam, Vishnuraj was the son of Chellamuthu, a businessman. On Saturday evening, he had borrowed the motorcycle from Naveen Kumar, his roommate.

A couple of steel barricades were placed by the traffic police at the spot to check rash driving. Vishnuraj managed to manoeuvre past one of them, but dashed against the second.

Eyewitnesses said that a number of people crashed against steel barricades and this was the first fatal accident.

The police said that steel barricades were placed in several spots on GST Road in the southern suburbs of Chennai, primarily to prevent motorists from driving at breakneck speed.

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