Date:18/07/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/18/stories/2007071860170300.htm

New Delhi

2 killed, school kids injured in accidents

Staff Reporter

Cases registered in East and North Delhi

NEW DELHI: Two young men were killed and seven school children injured in separate road accidents in the Capital on Tuesday.

The first accident was reported around 3-30 a.m. when a tempo hit three persons who were changing the tyre of a truck near a traffic signal at Mayur Vihar. They were rushed to hospital where two of them, Usman (32) and Sajid (20), were declared dead. The third, Azad Khan, sustained injuries.

The tempo driver, Chetan, also sustained injuries. A case has been registered against him at the Mayur Vihar police station.

Early in the morning, two school girls were injured when a car driven by Satish Kumar allegedly under the influence of alcohol hit them at Kalyanpuri. Pooja (13) fractured her left shoulder while Sushma (16) broke a tooth and sustained a facial fracture. Satish has been arrested.

In another accident, five children and the driver of a Maruti van in which they were going to Sarvodaya School sustained injuries when a call centre cab rammed into it at Prashant Vihar around 6-30 a.m.

According to the police, the school van was negotiating a turn at a traffic junction near Shaheed Bhagat Singh Chowk when the call centre car rammed into it. The injured children, Som, Nitin, Nikhil, Pankaj and Vaibhav, and the van driver were taken to Ambedkar Hospital, from where four of the children and the driver were discharged after first-aid.

One of the injured children was later referred to Lohia Hospital. The call centre vehicle driver, Deepu, has been arrested.