Daijiworld Media Network - Bantwal (SP)

Bantwal, Nov 2: After the driver of a Maruti Suzuki Swift car applied the brake all of a sudden when moving through Dasakody in Soorikumeru near Kalladka on national highway 75, steel rods loaded on a Maruti Omni van that was closely following the said car pierced through the car in front. However, there was providential escape for the occupants of the car. The incident happened on the evening of Tuesday November 1.

A Bengaluru-based couple and their child who were in the Swift car escaped from disaster by a whisker. The car was moving towards Bengaluru from Mangaluru. It is said that the car driver slowed the car abruptly in an attempt to avoid driving through a pothole in front. Although the driver of the Omni following the car too applied the brake, iron rods carried by Omni entered the car through the rear window and made their way out through the front windshield.

The couple was seated in the front seats whereas the child was in the rear seat of the car. Luckily, the rods passed a few centimeters above the heads of the mother and child. As such, no one was hurt in the accident.

Because of this accident, traffic on the highway was adversely affected for sometime. Vittal police who arrived sometime later, cleared the vehicles and paved way for resumption of smooth traffic.