F'bad: Techie killed, husband hurt as speeding truck crushes vehicles

A 32-year-old woman was killed, and her husband was severely injured after an out-of-control dumper truck triggered a multi-vehicle crash in Faridabad early on Wednesday morning.

- Debashish Karmakar

FARIDABAD:

The accident, which occurred at around 6 a.m. at a traffic signal intersection in Sector 21C, involved four vehicles and left three other people injured.

The deceased, Suvarna Tripathi, an IT engineer working in Noida, was on her way to the gym with her husband, Shivankur Tripathi, also an IT professional employed in Noida, when their Maruti S-Cross was crushed in the collision.

The husband's condition continues to be serious, said police.

According to the police, a dumper truck carrying stone dust lost control and rammed a school bus, which had no students on board at the time. The force of the impact caused the bus to spin 180 degrees before crashing into the couple's car and a Bolero pickup truck.