The truck rammed through at least 12 cars on Thoppur ghat road of the Salem-Bengaluru NH where vehicles were stranded due to another accident
DHARMAPURI: Four people died and seven others were injured when a container truck carrying cement load ploughed through 12 cars, a mini-van, a truck and a bike on the Thoppur ghat road of the Salem-Bengaluru National Highway near Dharmapuri around 4.15pm on Saturday. The truck was heading to Salem from Andhra Pradesh.
The incident took place when a highway patrol team was trying to regulate traffic on the stretch where an accident between a truck, which was heading to Salem from Krishnagiri, and a minivan had led to pileup of vehicles.
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Five seriously injured in pile-up involving 15 vehicles along the ghat section of NH
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Five seriously injured in pile-up involving 15 vehicles along the ghat section of NH
Four persons were killed and five others grievously injured in a pile-up involving 15 vehicles in the Thoppur Ghat on Saturday. It resulted in a traffic snarl running up to a few kilometres along the Salem-Bengaluru National Highway.
The pile-up occurred after a speeding truck rammed a line of vehicles that had slowed down along the ghat road because of an earlier accident.
Earlier in the afternoon, another accident involving a two-wheeler and a mini-van caused a traffic jam. The area was being cordoned off by the police when the Salem- and Coimbatore-bound weekend traffic accumulated on the ghat stretch. It led to a long-winding jam.