Collision in fog kills five

The wreckage of the car. (Biplab Basak)

TT, 14 December 2017, Jalpaiguri: Five persons, including two children and three women, died in a road accident at Torolpara on the outskirts of Jalpaiguri early on Thursday morning. Five others have suffered injuries.

All were returning from a wedding when the Maruti Van they were travelling in collided head on with a truck. Police officials suspect dense fog as the reason for the accident.

"They had come in 13 small vehicles and one of these vehicles, a Maruti Van, collided head on with a truck near Torolpara, located around four kilometres away from the bride's home. There were 10 persons in the car, including the driver," said a police official.

The driver of the truck, which was also damaged, fled.

Hearing huge sound of the crash, locals came out and rescued the injured. Other members of the marriage party also reached the spot soon. They then rushed all the 10 to the super-specialty hospital here where doctors pronounced four dead. Another died soon after admitted at the hospital.

"It was dark all around, with dense fog cover. We rushed to the spot and found that four are dead, including my mother. Others were wailing in pain," Badal Roy, a relative of the groom who lost his mother Jaya, 40, said.

The others were been identified as Sabita Roy, 36, Atishwari Roy, 42, Dwipsikha Roy, 13, and Joy Roy, 14. Among them, Sabita, Jaya and Joy are residents of Kuchlibari in Cooch Behar while others are from Mainaguri.