Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network - Bantwal (SP)
Bantwal, Mar 23: A serial accident occurred on Sunday March 22 evening at Kalladka in the taluk, involving three vehicles. Six persons suffered serious injuries in the accident, with injuries of three of them being critical. These three stand admitted into a private hospital in Mangaluru for treatment.
A family from Shaktinagar Mangaluru was returning home in a Maruti Omni vehicle after attending a programme near Puttur, when it hit an auto rickshaw being driven by Ashraf frorm Bolantoor head on at Kalladka. The front portion of the three-wheeler suffered deep impact, and the three wheeler came to a stop after turning back. The Omni went awry and fell on its side by the side of the road. In the process, the Omni also hit a motor bike that was following the auto rickshaw, injuring a couple and its child travelling by the two-wheeler.
In the accident, three persons belonging to a family from Shaktinagar Mangaluru, who were in the Maruti Omni vehicle, got injured, and the condition of a woman among them remains critical. Ashraf from Kalpane in Bolantoor suffered serious injury to his leg. The condition of a five-year-old child travelling with parents in the motor bike, which was thrown to the road in the accident, also is critical, it is gathered.
Initially,all the injured were admitted into local hospital, and then those whose condition was found to be precarious, were taken to Mangaluru for advanced treatment.