Overview
- Six people were killed and one woman was critically injured on Friday when a family car crashed into a stationary truck on the Outer Ring Road near Exit 16 in Shamshabad.
- Police named the dead as Bolli Shiva Kumar, Bolli Lasya, Bolli Rishitha, Kodem Srinivas, Krishna Chandra, and Kodem Madhav, and said Srinivas’s wife, Swetha, is hospitalized.
- The Maruti Suzuki Wagon R, registration TS23F2298, was crushed and wedged under the truck, and a crane was used to pull the mangled car free.
- Shamshabad police registered a case and are examining whether driver Shiva Kumar dozed off from fatigue and whether the lorry was properly parked.
- The family, residents of Sanathnagar with roots in Rajanna Sircilla, was returning from prayers at Yadagirigutta after a long day on the eight-lane ring road, which reports say has seen more than 375 deaths in five years.