Tirupur: A 36-year-old software engineer, his six-year-old daughter and 33-year-old wife were killed in a car accident on Kamanaickenpalayam-Palladam road here on Sunday morning.
The deceased were identified as V Karthikeyan of Vallakundapuram village near Dhali in Udumalpet, who was working for a software firm in Bengaluru, daughter K Dhanya and wife K Saranya. “They had visited Vallakundapuram a few days ago and were returning to Bengaluru. Karthikeyan was driving the car. When they were passing through Kamanaickenpalayam – Palladam road around 9.20am, a truck heading towards Pollachi rammed the car. In the impact, the front portion of the car was mangled and the trio died on the spot,” a police officer said.
Though the truck hit another car before coming to a halt, passengers in that vehicle escaped without any injury.
A police team from the Kamanaickenpalayam station sent the bodies to the Palladam government hospital for postmortem. The bodies were later handed over to the family. Preliminary inquiry revealed that truck driver N Kathiravan, 30, of Tiruchengode in Namakkal district, was driving under the influence of alcohol. Police have arrested him.