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Student killed in accident

TAMBARAM: An engineering college student died when the motorcycle he was riding was hit by a Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus at Gowrivakkam on Velachery Main Road on Friday.

M. Vaagaisoodi (21) is said to have been dragged for a distance of more than 50 metres. Eye-witnesses and passengers told traffic police that the bus driver was not aware that he had hit a motorcyclist. Traffic police said Vaagaisoodi was a third-year computer science engineering student at a private institution in Sholinganallur.

A resident of Sivasakthi Nagar in Rajakilpakkam, he was riding a Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle towards Medavakkam. He was riding the motorcycle close to the temporary concrete median. At Gowrivakkam, the MTC bus on its way to Adyar from Tambaram hit the motorcycle.

In the impact, the youth got trapped between the wheels of the bus along with the motorcycle and was dragged for more than 50 metres. Only after passengers inside the bus and eye-witnesses raised an alarm, did the driver stop the vehicle.

The accident took place around 9 a.m. After they received information, personnel from the Selaiyur police station arranged for an ambulance and Vaagaisoodi was rushed to Tambaram Taluk Government Hospital and later referred to Government General Hospital in Chennai. Police said the youth had suffered severe injuries on his hands, chest and face and bled profusely.

It was at the same spot on June 28 last year that two men were killed in a road accident in a multiple collision, forcing government officials to start building permanent medians on the Velachery Main Road, the 21-km-long State Highway No. 48 connecting Tambaram and Saidapet via Velachery. Traffic police with support from local bodies, private agencies and voluntary organisations have installed barricades and warning signs at many places to curb rash driving and overspeeding, but motorists continued to violate norms of safety after the road was widened, said K. Rangan, a Gowrivakkam resident.

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