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Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (MS)

Udupi, Apr 10: In a serial accident that occurred on the late night of Saturday, April 10 at Manipal, three cars and a motorbike were completely smashed. Luckily, all the passengers, drivers and the bike rider received only minor injuries.

At 12.30 AM on Saturday, the serial mishap took place on the DC office road of Manipal. One Innova, One Hyundai Verna, one XUV and a bike were damaged completely.

According to sources, the Innova car was going from Syndicate Circle to the DC office. A bike rider took a sudden U-turn at the divider near Polar Bear. In order to avoid crashing into him, the Innova car applied brakes and fell into a drain by the roadside.

Few persons known to the passengers in the Innova car got the information of the mishap and rushed to the spot in a XUV and a bike and parked their car and bike by the side of the road. In the meantime, a Hyundai Verna car, which arrived at high speed, lost control and hit the compound wall of the road side house and climbed on the XUV car and bike that was parked there.

Public who were near the spot of the accident immediately swung into action and got the passengers, driver and bike rider admitted to a hospital. No case in this connection has been registered so far. All the vehicles involved in the accident are lying on the same spot amid public thronging the place to watch the scenario and make videos.

The compound walls and yards of three roadside houses were damaged in the mishap.