Four killed in car-tractor collision near Padadhari

Rajkot: Four persons were killed when a car rammed into a tractor on a highway in Rajkot district on Wednesday morning. The accident took place on the stretch of the Rajkot-Jamnagar highway in Padadhari taluka of the district.
Of the four victims, three young men were travelling in a car towards Jamnagar from Rajkot city, said the official.
The car crashed into a tractor with a trolley near Targhadi village, said M D Makwana, sub-inspector of Paddhari police station. “The impact was such that all three youths died on the spot. The tractor driver also died on the spot as he fell from his vehicle due to the impact and got crushed under the wheels,” he said.
Three youths were identified as Jamnagar resident Himanshu Parmar (32), who was driving the car, and his friends Ajay Joshi (28) and Ajay Parmar (20), both residents of Rajkot.
The driver of the tractor was identified as Kirit Dobariya (40), a farmer from Paddhari, said police.
The bodies were sent for postmortem and further legal process has been initiated, said Makwana.