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Ara : A speeding tractor crushed to death an assistant driver of a truck near Brodson Company Campat office Babura Bazaar on Ara-Chhapra main road under Barhara police station (PS) around midnight on April 25, 2021.
Police recovered the body and brought it over to Ara Sadar Hospital for post-mortem. Police also seized the tractor though the driver escaped from the scene leaving the vehicle behind. An FIR has been lodged with Barhara PS in this connection and police are conducting raids to arrest the tractor driver. The deceased was identified as Dhananjay Gupta, 30, son of Parmeshwar Gupta of Simraha village under Vijayipur police station in Gopalganj district.
SHO, Barhara PS, Deep Narayan Singh, said that the assistant driver of a truck Dhananjay was loitering on road as the road was packed. Meanwhile, a sand loaded speeding tractor coming from opposite direction came on wrong track and knocked down Dhananjay and the rear wheel of the tractor crushed him killing him on the spot.
The locals said that illegal carrying of sand goes round the clock on Ara-Chhapra main road causing road accident almost daily but the district administration has failed to stop illegal mining and carrying of sand.