Daijiworld News Network - Bantwal (GA) - Pic Dayanand Kukkaje

Bantwal, Jan 9: These days travelling by road transport has become hazardous than comfortable.  The increasing number of accidents makes the journey very much unpredictable, as no one is sure to reach his/her destination safe and sound.

This was the epitome of the ghastly accident that shook the passengers travelling to Mangalore by Durgamba Volvo bus off their slumber in the wee hours of Monday January 9.

By the time the passengers were fully out of their comfortable sleep, two persons had died on the spot.

The speeding Volvo, in a bid to overtake a vehicle, rammed into a jeep going towards Uppinangady close to the Panemangalore Bridge on the National Highway 48 on Monday morning.  Two persons travelling in the jeep, Janardhan, the driver and Kamala, wife of Sheena Poojary of Karpe died on the spot.

The passengers on the jeep were on their way to observe the obsequies ceremony of one Sankamma, sister of the deceased Kamala in the Sahasraligheshwar Temple of Uppinangady.  It was quite an irony of fate that the peoplee who were going to observe the obsequies themselves met with the fatal accident.

Deceased Janardhan was the son of Jinnappa of Panjikallu.   Other than two being killed on the spot, Vishwanath, Hariappa, Yogish, Muttappa Poojary and Hariappa, the residents of Isiragoli have been seriously injured and are admitted to a private hospital at Mangalore.

On the other hand, the bus, after hitting the jeep fell into a 50 feet deep gorge.  Yet the passengers were lucky enough to escape with minor injuries.

A slip of paper, which had the telphone number of former taluk panchayat president Sudarshan Jain written on it, was in Janardhan's pocket.  Based on this the police called up Sudarshan Jain and gathered information about the deceased as well as the injured.

Bantwal town police have registered a complaint in this regard.