A 23-year-old engineering student was crushed to death by a truck in Jharkhand`s Dhanbad district, police said on Thursday.

Sindri Avinash Priyadarshi, a third-year electrical engineering student from Birsa Institute of Technology (BIT), was on his way to a relative`s home on a motorcycle around 7.30 pm on Wednesday when his bike skidded off the road near Kandra on Sindri-Jhari road, around 170km from Ranchi, police said.