Man killed after car smashes into parked container carrier on 2nd Hooghly bridge

Kolkata: A person was killed in a road accident on the second Hooghly bridge on the wee hours of Sunday.

A Special Utility Vehicle (SUV) rammed into a static container carrier. The driver of the vehicle died on the spot. Police recovered the four injured passengers and rushed them to SSKM hospital.

Police sources informed that on Sunday a container carrier was parked there due to some reasons. All of a sudden, the driver of the container carrier heard a noise and felt something hit it from behind. When he got down and went to the back of the vehicle, he saw an SUV had rammed into his container carrier's back and was wrecked.

He reported the matter to the police personnel near the toll booth of the bridge. Police tried to recover the persons from inside the car but failed as none of the doors were in a condition to be opened normally.

Later, police had to cut off the body of the SUV to pull out the passengers. The driver identified as Banaful Bhuniya (47) was found dead. The other four persons have been admitted to SSKM hospital by police.

The sleuths came to know that the car bearing the registration number of Odisha was hired by passengers coming from Egra in East Midnapore. Police are trying to contact the families of Bhuniya and the injured passengers.