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Udupi: Accident near Bannadi - Auto rickshaw driver killed

  •   Tue, Jan 13 2015 10:38:38 AM

Silvester D'Souza
Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Jan 13: An auto rickshaw driver lost his life in an accident which occurred near the brick kiln at Uplady near Bannadi in the district on the night of Sunday January 11. He has been identified as Shankar Marakala.

At around 7.15 pm on Sunday, a Mahindra Bolero vehicle that was coming from the direction of Kota Junction swerved to extreme left when negotiating a small bend near the brick kiln at Uplady. In the process, the vehicle, which did not have any registration number, hit an auto rickshaw being driven by Shankara Marakala towards Kota from Achlady.

Marakala suffered extensive injuries in the accident. The locals took him to a private hospital in Brahmavar for treatment, but they were told that he was brought dead.

Because of the impact of the collision, the auto rickshaw was badly mangled. On a complaint filed by a local named Ganesh Amin, a case was registered in Kota police station.
  

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  • nelson piento, udupi / oman

    Tue, Jan 13 2015

    For our road...
    For our people...
    Ambassador is fit...
    High profile, high speed cars are
    dangerous for our roads and our people........

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  • Prakash, Mangalore

    Tue, Jan 13 2015

    Adarsh, I apologize if I have hurt your feelings. I did not intend to do that.
    In your response you have acknowledged that carelessness with Auto Drivers does exist, however pressing its reason. It is exactly this carelessness compounded by its practice by lakhs of Auto drivers that causes the issue I raised. While slow moving Autos may not be directly implicated in many accidents sadly there are no statistics of the number of accidents to faster moving vehicles such as motorbikes, cars and others that were caused as a direct result of an auto drivers carelessness where the auto driver left the scene quite ignorant of the issue caused by said carelessness.
    Recklessness if practiced by some, does not give everyone the right to repeat the same. Just my two paise.

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  • jeetendra hegde, mumbai

    Tue, Jan 13 2015

    don't single out rickshaw drivers only...75% of drivers don't follow road rules in our native...driving in our own place is Hazardous ...

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  • adarsh, sullia/Mangalore

    Tue, Jan 13 2015

    Mr.Prakash I Totally agree with your comment but at this moment u sound a little rude. I am also a rikshaw driver. I know that at times we drivers are a little careless and you will only know if you start driving an auto. we try the shortest routes, less waiting and minimum Empty trips....May be this is the reason why you feel we are a little careless.But in reality we do care. We also have family and children. There are lakhs of autos in india serving millions of passengers each day. Mr.Prakash how many accidents do you actually hear Each day? And for your kind Information in many auto accidents you get to hear that the opposite velhicle is at fault not the auto. Please Investigate, Analyse and post a comment. We drive safer than the rich people drive their private cars of course. We drive even more safer than your private and government buses. We never killed people like your construction and mining tippers do. Our autos are not crashing like the planes during these days. We are the first who come to rescue the public in accidents and emergency. We are the ones who you when you reach a town midnight.Now wht do you say Mr.Prakash?

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  • Prakash, Mangalore

    Tue, Jan 13 2015

    Its tragic that a man dies in this incident but honestly it is difficult to have any sympathy towards Auto Drivers. They are quite simply the most inconsiderate road users and also quite simply one of the largest risks other drivers have to contend with.

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