In a tragic incident, a six-year-old boy was killed in a road mishap when a speeding dumper hit the bike in which he was riding pillion with his parents, on Wednesday morning. The accident took place near Pata village, which falls on the NH-33 under Chandil thana area in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district, which is about 25 kilometres away from Jamshedpur.

The couple was travelling from their house in Chilgu in Chandil to a relative’s place at Ichagarh with their only child to ring in the New Year when tragedy struck them at 10.30 am in the morning.

A speeding dumper hit the bike from behind causing the vehicle to fall. The child due to impact was flung away from his parents only to be run over by the killer dumper. The vehicle even ran over the legs of the child’s father.

The driver immediately abandoned the vehicle to make a narrow escape. Within 15 minutes of the mishap, a police party arrived at the spot and recovered the mutilated body of the boy before shifting it to Seraikela divisional hospital for post-mortem, as the couple wailed.

OC, Chandil thana, Sanoj Kumar Chaudhury confirming the news said, “It appears as if the biker had deviated from his usual side to avoid a big pot-hole on the road. In doing so he reached almost on the middle of the highway, the speeding dumper which was coming from behind hit the bike,” said Chaudhury while talking to The Telegraph Online.

The OC said that the boy, identified as Aditya Dev, had been crushed by the rear wheel of the dumper. The victim had been crushed beyond recognition.

“We have seized the dumper and are trying to identify the driver as well as its owner on the basis of its registration number. We have also sent the injured couple to MGM Medical College Hospital for treatment,” said the OC.

Notably, just two days back four people, including two women from the same family were killed in a road accident that took place on NH-33 near Daruda village which also falls under the Ichagarh thana area.

A senior police officer pointed out that the number of road mishaps has increased recently as the work to widen NH-33 is still underway.

“The national highway widening work is being done in parts. On the stretch where the highway has been completed, people tend to ride faster, but on the stretch where the work is yet to begin, is full of potholes, which the drivers or riders try to avoid. In doing so they do deviate onto the middle of the road and often ram into heavy vehicles,” said the police officer, requesting anonymity.