24 November,2010 07:06 AM IST | | Kaumudi Gurjar
Labourer killed, four injured as dumpers crash into each other
Does alcohol affect your reflexes? Unfortunately, yes, and here is a classic example of how alcohol welcomed disaster yesterday. Two dumper drivers, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, rammed their vehicles into each other near the stone quarry in Moshi. The impact was so grave that one of the labourers who was on his way to duty at the quarry in one of the dumpers died on the spot.
Four others sitting in the same dumper were seriously injured in the accident.
The incident took place yesterday around 8.45 am near Vakahar Mahamandal in Moshi when a dumper rammed into the other carrying the labourers. Vishnu Sahagupta (23), the labourer working at the stone quarry, died in the accident and Jagannath Halkute (50), Vinod Gupta (22), Samadhan Vakade (23) and Dinesh Singh (38) were seriously injured. The drivers fled from the spot after the accident.
"Two injured have stated in their statements that the dumper driver took a steep right turn after suddenly some vehicle stopped before him. And thus he rammed head-on into the other dumper plying in the opposite direction," said Constable T N Rathod.
Alcohol, say locals
Locals who saw the accident revealed that the accident took place as both the drivers were under the influence of alcohol. After the accident, both the dumpers fell on the opposite side leading to a traffic jam for about half-an-hour from Vakhar Mahamandal towards the road ahead to the quarry.
"Vishnu was the sole bread winner of the family. The family will have to go through a difficult phase now," said Deepak Kumar, a labourer hailing from Siwan district ufffd the same village the deceased belonged to. "I was riding pillion on a two-wheeler when my friends, including Sahagupta, Vinod Gupta and others, took lift in the dumper. But their decision to accept lift from the dumper driver proved fatal."
