Six Indians killed in road accident in US
Six people died as a minivan was hit by an oncoming car in Pennsylvania, near the border with Ohio.
By Agencies |
WEST SPRINGFIELD: Six people died as a minivan was hit by an oncoming car in Pennsylvania, near the border with Ohio.
Chief Deputy Coroner Korac Timon said that four men and two women died on Saturday when the minivan carrying seven Michigan tourists to Niagara Falls crossed the median and hit a car head-on at about 4 pm. The van came to rest on its roof.
Minivan driver Kaushik Deb, 26, of Troy, in suburban Detroit died on impact. The passengers killed were Manoj Jharia, 35; Mili Jharia, 28; Nitin Agarwal, 29; Swati Agarwal, 25; and Shubham Choudory, 24. The Jharias and Agarwals were married, police said.
The sole survivor in the minivan, Nitin Gupta, 28, was sitting in the front passenger seat, Havern said. He was also treated and released from a hospital on Saturday.
The seven tourists were citizens of India, police said. Four of the six killed were employees of Troy, Michigan-based Syntel Inc, and two were spouses of employees, Jonathan James, vice president for marketing and investor relations, said on Sunday.
The seven were travelling with another van carrying six people that was a few minutes ahead of them.
The two groups had just left a rest stop and travelled about a quarter-mile when the accident occurred, said Kranthi Bandaru, who was travelling in the second van.
"We left them about 10 minutes before they drove on," Bandaru said. "We continued down the road when we received a cell phone call from Nitin that there was an accident. That's when we turned around."
State police said there was no apparent cause of the crash. Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook said he has ordered toxicology tests for minivan's driver.
Chief Deputy Coroner Korac Timon said that four men and two women died on Saturday when the minivan carrying seven Michigan tourists to Niagara Falls crossed the median and hit a car head-on at about 4 pm. The van came to rest on its roof.
Minivan driver Kaushik Deb, 26, of Troy, in suburban Detroit died on impact. The passengers killed were Manoj Jharia, 35; Mili Jharia, 28; Nitin Agarwal, 29; Swati Agarwal, 25; and Shubham Choudory, 24. The Jharias and Agarwals were married, police said.
The sole survivor in the minivan, Nitin Gupta, 28, was sitting in the front passenger seat, Havern said. He was also treated and released from a hospital on Saturday.
The seven tourists were citizens of India, police said. Four of the six killed were employees of Troy, Michigan-based Syntel Inc, and two were spouses of employees, Jonathan James, vice president for marketing and investor relations, said on Sunday.
The seven were travelling with another van carrying six people that was a few minutes ahead of them.
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The two groups had just left a rest stop and travelled about a quarter-mile when the accident occurred, said Kranthi Bandaru, who was travelling in the second van.
"We left them about 10 minutes before they drove on," Bandaru said. "We continued down the road when we received a cell phone call from Nitin that there was an accident. That's when we turned around."
State police said there was no apparent cause of the crash. Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook said he has ordered toxicology tests for minivan's driver.
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