A man and three children were killed after a speeding truck hit their motorcycle and dragged them for nearly 80 metres on a narrow single-lane road in Nuh late Tuesday, police said on Wednesday. The man’s wife, who was also travelling on the motorcycle, was critically injured and is undergoing treatment.
Nasreen was flung onto the roadside, while the other four fell with the motorcycle and were run over. None of them were wearing helmets, they added. The motorcycle was also broken into several pieces. Commuters alerted police, following which police and emergency response vehicles reached the spot. Traffic remained disrupted for nearly an hour. The truck was seized, and he is expected to be arrested soon.
The victims were identified as Mohammad Shakir, 32, a resident of Padla Shahpuri village in Nuh’s Firozpur Jhirka, his one-and-a-half-month-old daughter Zahra, two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Sajra and five-year-old niece Gazala, officers said. Police said the bobtail semi-truck was travelling at an estimated 80-90 kmph when it hit the motorcycle. An FIR was registered against the unidentified truck driver under sections 106 (causing death by negligence) and 281 (rash driving) of BNS at Nuh City police station on Wednesday.
The accident took place around 11pm near Maria Manzil School on the Nuh-Tauru road, police said. Police said Shakir, an Urdu language teacher in a madrasa in Tauru, was returning home with his wife and the four children after attending a family function at a relative’s house in Tauru when the truck hit their motorcycle. Singh said CCTV footage from a nearby shop captured the accident. The driver abandoned the truck at least a kilometre away and fled on foot, Singh said.
Singh said the bodies were shifted to a government hospital in Nalhar and handed over to the family after autopsies on Wednesday.
Shakir’s wife, Nasreen, 25, was critically injured and is undergoing treatment at Shaheed Hasan Khan government medical college and hospital in Nalhar, Nuh, officers added.
