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Bengaluru: Two women on a scooter were killed after a BBMP garbage truck ran over them on the Thanisandra Main Road on Saturday afternoon.
The incident occurred opposite the Zudio store around 12 pm, on the lane carrying traffic from Nagawara towards Thanisandra. According to the police, the duo – Nigar Sulthan (30) and Nigar Irfana (38) – were on the left side of the lorry and were attempting to overtake another vehicle. The two were housewives.
“There was another two-wheeler in front of the scooter and the women were attempting to overtake it. They accidentally swerved to the right to avoid crashing into the two-wheeler, and came under the wheels of the truck,” said a senior police officer from the Hennur traffic police station.
The two women were killed instantly. Police noted that the two were sisters and residents of Govindapura. The garbage lorry driver, identified as Gadhilinga, 32, a resident of Byrapura, Ballari, was detained. The bodies of the women were shifted to the Dr B R Ambedkar Medical College Hospital.
BBMP garbage lorries have been in the news for all the wrong reasons these past few months. In July last year, two IT professionals were killed in a gruesome crash with a BBMP garbage lorry near KR Circle in central Bengaluru.
Previous cases
On July 29, 2024 two techies on a bike were mowed down by a garbage truck. The victims were dragged eight meters on a poorly lit section of the road near Vidhana Soudha.
In April 2022, Devanna, a food delivery executive was killed after he was run over by a speeding garbage truck on Thanisandra Main Road.
In December, 2023, a lorry driver, Chinanna, aged 55, lost his life after crashing into a BBMP garbage truck parked haphazardly on NICE Road. The garbage truck was parked without adequate safety measures like parking lights, barricades or signboards on the right side of the road. Similar incidents of haphazardly parked garbage trucks causing fatalities have been reported.