Four killed, 15 injured in Kapurthala accident

Four people were killed and 15 injured when a pick-up truck collided with a car on the Kapurthala-Goindwal Sahib road late on Sunday, police said on Monday.
Kanwarjit Singh, the station house officer (SHO) of Fattu Dhinga police station, said 25 people were travelling in the pick-up vehicle. They were returning to Nangli village in Tarn Taran district after paying obeisance at the Anandpur Sahib gurdwara when the driver lost control while negotiating a sharp bend on the road.
“The driver ended up hitting the car coming from the opposite side. The impact of the collision was such that two women passengers of the pick-up truck and the car driver died on the spot. It took the police an hour to retrieve the bodies from the damaged vehicles,” he said.
Gurpreet Singh, the car driver, Amrik Kaur and Gurmeet Kaur, both from Nangli village, died on the spot. Another woman Charnjit Kaur from the village succumbed to injuries on Monday.
Fifteen people suffered injuries and were admitted to hospitals in Kapurthala from where four of the seriously injured were referred to Jalandhar civil hospital.
The SHO said eyewitnesses told police that both the vehicles were speeding.
On the basis of statements of both the parties, police have initiated inquest proceedings under Section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).