Aurangabad, Feb 15:
The series of the accidents does not seem to cease on the
Beed By-pass from the beginning of the New Year. An old man going on a
motorcycle with his engineer son on Beed By-pass Road was crushed by a speeding
truck on Monday at around 2.20 pm.
The deceased has been identified as Ashruba Bhimrao Raut
(65, Pokhri Mande, Beed). His son Vishnu Raut (40, Satara area) sustained minor
injuries.
Ashruba had come to the city to
attend a marriage ceremony at the Ramchandra hall on Monday afternoon. His son
stays at Satara area and after the marriage ceremony he went to meet his son.
After staying there for an hour, he was going with his son on motorcycle to the
marriage venue to return to his village with the other people. After crossing
the Godawari Tee- point, a speeding truck (MH 20 CT 2666) dashed their motorcycle. Ashruba fell down and
came under the left tyre of the truck. The nearby residents stopped the truck
driver who was planning to run away from the scene. Meanwhile PI Surendra
Malale, traffic branch PI Mukund Deshmukh and others rushed to the spot and
took the injured to the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) where
the doctors declared Ashruba dead after examination. A case has been registered
against the truck driver at the Satara police station while ASI Sheshrao Chavan
is further investigating the case.