A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) inspector, his wife and an ambulance driver were killed after the ambulance in which they were travelling rear-ended a trailer truck at Badli Chowk near Pelpa village in Jhajjar on Saturday evening, police said.
“It had suddenly slowed down multiple times while moving ahead. The deceased were identified as CISF inspector Sain Prakash, 59; his wife, Lakshmi, 58, both residents of Kaccha Babra Road in Jhajjar; and ambulance driver Pramod Jangra, 35, a resident of Jhajjar town. Prakash’s elder son, Pankaj Kumar, 35, who was also travelling in the ambulance, suffered multiple fractures and was critically injured. Investigators said Prakash had met with an accident on August 30 and was undergoing treatment at SGT Hospital in Chandu Budhera, Gurugram. An FIR was under process on Pankaj’s statement against the unidentified truck under sections 106 (causing death by negligence), 281 (rash driving) and 125(b) (causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others) at Badli police station.
The accident took place around 6pm on the Gurugram-Jhajjar road, police said. He is undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Jhajjar, police said. Sub-inspector Sumit Kumar, station house officer of Badli police station, said Prakash had gone to the hospital to get stitches removed from his wounds. “After completing the procedure, they were returning home when the accident took place,” he said. The SHO said Pankaj, an eyewitness, told police the trailer truck was moving erratically. The ambulance driver was not ever able to overtake,” he said.
The bodies will be handed over to the families after autopsy on Sunday.
