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Three die in two separate Tumakuru road accidents
Three people died in two separate road accidents in Karnataka’s Tumakuru district between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The first crash killed Suhail Khan (28) and his wife Rihan Khan (24) when…
The Story in Brief
Three people died in two separate road accidents in Karnataka’s Tumakuru district between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The first crash killed Suhail Khan (28) and his wife Rihan Khan (24) when an unidentified vehicle hit their bike near Kunigal Road on Tuesday night. The couple, daily wage labourers from Uttar Pradesh, were returning home from Hebbur. Suhail died on the spot; Rihan succumbed to injuries on Wednesday morning. In the second accident, a 44-year-old woman, Sanjeevamma, died after a bike collided with a lorry on the national highway near Sannappanapalya. She was travelling with her husband Kumar to Devarayanadurga.
The Indian Opinion
Headlines about road accidents rarely linger beyond a day, but Tumakuru’s twin tragedies point to a persistent scourge: unsafe highways and poor night-time visibility. The deaths of a young couple and a woman on the same stretch within hours are not a freak coincidence but a systemic failure of road engineering and enforcement. Citizens are left wondering whether local authorities will bother to install speed breakers or better lighting at known black spots. The real test is whether the district administration releases a detailed accident audit within a month, not just a boilerplate condolence.
Source: deccanherald.com
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