Drunk rams car into pillar, 2 die
5 friends were returning from B’day bash
Two youngsters were killed and four others injured in an accident in Saroornagar in the early hours of Thursday. The car they were travelling in rammed into a Hyderabad Metro Rail pillar.
The accident occurred when they were on their way to have dinner after a birthday party in a bar in Vanasthalipuram. Police said the birthday boy Gundigouni Saikumar Goud, who was heavily drunk, lost control of the wheel in an attempt to avoid another car on the left and hit the metro median, after which the car toppled over and landed on the metro rail pillar on its rear.
In the process, the car also ran over a
B’DAY BOY, who was driving the car tested positive in the alcohol test.
POLICE BOOKED, case against the drunk driver who escaped unhurt. destitute man sleeping in the middle of the road and injured him.
Itikala Srinath (24) and Macharla Chaitanya (23) were killed in the accident, while three others sustained injuries. Saikumar, who was wearing his seat belt, escaped unhurt. He tested positive in the alcohol test and registered 250 mgdl in the breath analyser test. Based on a complaint from Srinath’s brother police booked Saikumar for culpable homicide not amounting to murder (304 II of IPC).
When they were on the way to Santosh nagar in Saikumar’s car (no AP 29BV 2888). driven by Saikumar near Malabar Gold showroom in Vanasthalipuram, he tried to avoid another speeding car that overtook his vehicle from the left and hit the metro median. “As soon as he hit the median, he swerved the vehicle to the left. But as the vehicle was moving at a high speed, it toppled and landed on the metro rail pillar on its rear.”
Saroornagar Inspector S. Lingaiah said, Srinath died on the spot and Chaitanya succumbed at the hospital, while others sustained injuries of which Chakrapani’s condition is stated to be critical.