Truck crushes woman, 2 daughters in Moga

A woman and her two daughters were crushed to death under a tipper truck loaded with sand opposite the office of the senior superintendent of police (SSP) in Moga on the busy Ludhiana-Ferozepur highway here on Thursday morning.

A woman and her two daughters were crushed to death under a tipper truck loaded with sand opposite the office of the senior superintendent of police (SSP) in Moga on the busy Ludhiana-Ferozepur highway here on Thursday morning.

The driver of the tipper (HP 31 B 0398), belonging to the Continental Construction Projects Limited, was reversing the vehicle to unload the sand for the construction of an over bridge when the woman and her two daughters came under its wheels and died on the spot. The tipper’s driver, Gurcharan Singh, a resident of Ghal Khurd village in Ferozepur, said that he didn’t notice that they were behind the tipper.

The deceased have been identified as Aruna Devi, 45, Savita, 5, and Sarita, 10. They were residents of Sahnewal in Ludhiana and had been residing at a slum near the grain market here for a decade.

Eyewitnesses said they cried but the driver failed to listen to them.

The police reached the spot and shifted bodies to the civil hospital here.

Kulwant Singh, assistant sub-inspector (ASI), investigating the case, said that after conducting postmortem, bodies would be handed over to the family.

The police have impounded the truck and arrested the driver after registering a case against him under Sections 304-A (causing death by negligence) and 279 (rash driving on a public way) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the city police station.

Paramjit Singh, the woman ’s brother, who was accompanying them, told the police that they were crossing the road when the tipper was being reversed.