A woman was killed and six others were injured late Thursday when their overspeeding SUV collided with a tree on the Bhabua-Mohania road in Bihar’s Kaimur district.
The woman and the injured people, all from Bihar’s Nalanda and Nawada districts, were returning home after visiting Varanasi and the famous Mundeshwari Bhawani temple in Kaimur, according to police.
According to SHO Ramanand Mandal, the driver lost control of the vehicle as it approached a mosque in Babura village and collided with a tree.
Fortunately, no one was outside the mosque, which is usually busy; otherwise, several people could have been injured or killed, according to police.
According to witnesses on the scene, the collision was so powerful that the SUV’s bonnet blew off and the tree fell. They said, fortunately, airbags opened in time otherwise no one could have survived.
The deceased woman was identified as Dharmsheela Devi, wife of Satyendra Prasad from Nalanda. The injured persons, identified as Rani Jyoti, Upendra Nath Sinha and wife Rachana Sinha of Nalanda, Priti Anand, and her daughters Divya Kumari and Kyuti Kumari of Nawada were brought to Sadar hospital where doctors referred them to Varanasi.
The families of the deceased and the injured have been notified by the police. According to police, the deceased’s body was returned to the family following a postmortem examination.