<p>Four youths, including two girls, were crushed to death when the car they were travelling in collided with a truck on Friday.<br /><br />The accident occurred a little before 4 am near the Kempanahalli Gate on Mysuru Road near Ramanagaram.<br /><br />The friends were speeding in a Hyundai Verna. The car hit a median and flipped to the other side, smashing into an oncoming container truck.<br /><br />Reckless driving caused the accident, police said.<br /><br />Joel Jacob (21) was driving the car. Nikith Job Sudeep (20), Jeena Eldo (21) and Rebecca (21) were out with him on a late night drive from Mysuru to Bengaluru.<br /><br />The bodies were moved to the morgue at Rajarajeshwari Hospital on Mysuru Road.<br /><br />All four died instantaneously inside the car.<br /><br />The impact of the collision was such that the front of the car was completely ripped away.<br /><br />Police and volunteers struggled to extricate the bodies from the car.<br /><br />Jacob was doing his MBBS at the Rajarajeshwari Medical College in Kengeri and Sudeep was studying chartered accountancy after his BCom, police said.<br /><br />Jeena and Rebecca had just graduated this year from the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) near Katpadi in Tamil Nadu. The girls had come from Dubai a couple of days ago to attend their graduation ceremony in VIT on Saturday.<br /><br />The four, all natives of Kerala, had just met and decided to go on a drive.<br /><br />The parents of Jacob, Jeena and Rebecca live in Dubai, and are flying to Bengaluru. Sudeep’s parents and some of Jeena’s relatives arrived from Chennai to claim the bodies.<br /><br />Ramanagaram Town traffic police have registered a case.</p>
<p>Four youths, including two girls, were crushed to death when the car they were travelling in collided with a truck on Friday.<br /><br />The accident occurred a little before 4 am near the Kempanahalli Gate on Mysuru Road near Ramanagaram.<br /><br />The friends were speeding in a Hyundai Verna. The car hit a median and flipped to the other side, smashing into an oncoming container truck.<br /><br />Reckless driving caused the accident, police said.<br /><br />Joel Jacob (21) was driving the car. Nikith Job Sudeep (20), Jeena Eldo (21) and Rebecca (21) were out with him on a late night drive from Mysuru to Bengaluru.<br /><br />The bodies were moved to the morgue at Rajarajeshwari Hospital on Mysuru Road.<br /><br />All four died instantaneously inside the car.<br /><br />The impact of the collision was such that the front of the car was completely ripped away.<br /><br />Police and volunteers struggled to extricate the bodies from the car.<br /><br />Jacob was doing his MBBS at the Rajarajeshwari Medical College in Kengeri and Sudeep was studying chartered accountancy after his BCom, police said.<br /><br />Jeena and Rebecca had just graduated this year from the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) near Katpadi in Tamil Nadu. The girls had come from Dubai a couple of days ago to attend their graduation ceremony in VIT on Saturday.<br /><br />The four, all natives of Kerala, had just met and decided to go on a drive.<br /><br />The parents of Jacob, Jeena and Rebecca live in Dubai, and are flying to Bengaluru. Sudeep’s parents and some of Jeena’s relatives arrived from Chennai to claim the bodies.<br /><br />Ramanagaram Town traffic police have registered a case.</p>
