Ahmedabad, Oct. 20 -- Eleven people, including three women and a police sub-inspector, were killed in four road accidents across Gujarat's Banaskantha, Bharuch and Gandhinagar districts since late Monday night, officials said on Tuesday.
In Gandhinagar, three people, including two women, died early Tuesday after their car hit a road divider and overturned on Adalaj Road, a police official said. In Bharuch district, three people were killed when their car collided with a commercial vehicle on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway around 3.30 am. The car was travelling from Vadodara towards Bharuch with four occupants.
The deceased were identified as Yash Patel (27), a sub-inspector with Vadodara police, Parth Patel (27) and Ashfaq Abdul (28). The fourth occupant, Manthan Soni, sustained injuries and was taken to a hospital.
Two separate accidents in Banaskantha district claimed five lives late Monday night.
An elderly couple and an auto-rickshaw driver died when their three-wheeler collided with an unidentified vehicle near Badarpura Patiya. Chehara Malupura (66) and his wife Lasuben (62) were returning to Deesa after his dialysis treatment at Palanpur Civil Hospital. The driver, Shravan Majira (24), also died. In Amirgadh, two motorcyclists, Govind Chauhan (30) and Pavan Kharali (23), died after their speeding motorcycle skidded while travelling from Abu Road towards Amirgadh, police said.
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