Long-weekend trip from Indore to Puri turns fatal for 6 friends as car jumps over divider, crashes into oncoming truck

“It was raining at the time. The driver, Sagar Yadav, may have been driving all night, having left Indore the previous day. We suspect he lost control or may have had poor visibility of the road due to the heavy rain. Their car jumped the divider, which is less than a foot high, and a truck coming from the opposite end hit one side of the car,” said a police official from the Baghnadi police station.

While the airbags saved Sagar’s life, the rest of the six occupants were killed. The local police said that the accident site was not in the list of blind or accident-prone spots.

Five of the friends have been identified as Akash Maurya (28) from Indore, Govind Punamchand (33) from Ratlam, Aman Rathore (26) from Indore, Nitin Yadav (34) from Indore, and Sangram Kesari from Neelkantpur in Odisha. The sixth deceased is yet to be identified.