Four crushed by apple - laden trucks in shimla

  Shimla. Asal Baat News.  Four people including a couple were killed in two separate road accident in Shimla when tracks laden  with apple ...

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Asal Baat News. 

Four people including a couple were killed in two separate road accident in Shimla when tracks laden  with apple over turned and fell on their vehicles, police said on Wednesday.

Mohan Negi and his wife asha Negi were crushed under an apple laden truck that went out of control, police said. 

The incident happened Tuesday evening when the truck from Narkanada was going outside the state talking the Raigarh Solan road. The truck reportedly by mistake veered towards chaila market insteed of the sainj Raigarh road and went out of the control. The truck hit 4 vehicles,turned turtle and crushed the couple.

Recording to preliminary investigation by police,a brake failure led to the  accident. The bodies for extracted with the help of excavator and sent for postmortem to the civil hospital in theog, polish said.

A case of causing death by  negligence, race and negligent driving and endangering life under section 279, 337 and 304 a IPC has been registered against the driver of the truck and investigation are underway they added.

In the second accident driver of another apple-laden truck coming form theog lost control over the vehicle at mashobra diversion near Delhi in August of Shimla city and hit a pickup truck,taking both the vehicles down from Shimla theog road to basantpur Shimla road.

Two people died on the spot while two others sustained serious injuries in the incident.in the incident one of the victims was identified as Sanju Thakur from nankhedi in Shimla while the second is yet to be identified, police said.