Jaipur/Jhunjhunu: Three people were killed and nine others injured in two separate road accidents in Sikar and Dausa on Monday, with police citing poor visibility due to dense fog as the likely cause in both cases.
In the first incident, three persons died in a head-on collision between two vehicles on the Reengus–Khatu Shyam Ji Road in Sikar district around 2 am. Two others sustained injuries and are undergoing treatment.
Reengus police station ASI Sawantaram Gurjar said the accident involved a passenger car carrying four youths travelling from Khatu Shyam Ji towards Reengus and a commercial passenger vehicle approaching from the opposite direction. The deceased were identified as Ajay Devanda, the driver of the commercial vehicle, and Gaurav and Ajay Saini, residents of Suratpura in Dausa district who were travelling in the car. Ajay Saini later succumbed to his injuries at Jaipur’s SMS Hospital, while the other two died on the spot.
In another accident later in the morning, a private passenger bus rammed into a wood-laden jugaad vehicle parked on the roadside on the Sawai Madhopur Road in the Mandawari police station area of Dausa district. Seven bus passengers were injured, three of them seriously.
Police said the bus was travelling from Sawai Madhopur to Lalsot with around 20 passengers on board. “Due to heavy fog, the driver failed to notice the stationary vehicle near a curve at Kalyanpura, lost control and crashed into it,” a police officer said. The injured were rushed to the Lalsot government hospital.
