karachi Accident
Jul 31, 2009 News & Events, Pakistan
KARACHI: A 48-year-old man, his doctor wife and their two sons were killed on Thursday when a truck towing a container-mounted trailer overturned and crushed their stationary car near the ICI bridge intersection, witnesses and police said.
The witnesses said that the truck (AP-5369), coming from the Jinnah bridge and moving in its high-speed lane, mounted the traffic island and rammed into an electric pole before it overturned and its empty container landed on the grey Honda City car (AFT-360), killing all its occupants.
The crash also uprooted the electric pole. They said that the fast-moving trailer overturned after its driver lost control of his heavy vehicle in a bid to avoid a pothole on the road and the container fell on the victims’ car, which was halted at the intersection and waiting for the traffic policeman’s signal to move ahead.
Adam Khan Leghari, an MBA from the United States with landholding in Hyderabad, along with his sons, Mohammad Saris Leghari, 12, and Mohammad Ahmed Leghari, 8, was going to drop his wife, Dr Asma Leghari, to her workplace, a government dispensary at Mauripur, when the family met with the fatal accident.
The truck driver, identified as Abdul Shakoor, son of Mohammad Hussain, immediately fled the scene. However, the police arrested him at a nearby place on a tip-off.
A large number of people gathered at the spot as two forklift trucks raised the heavy container and the smashed car was dragged from under it.
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