Two accidents in suburban Parsudih and Sundernagar thana areas in the wee hours of Sunday claimed the life of one person and led to traffic congestion for hours on the Station-Parsudih Road.

The mishaps, occurring between 1am and 2.30am, involved a speeding car and a truck. The first accident at Sundernagar saw a car ramming a lamp-post killing the man at the wheel on the spot.

The collision was so loud that local residents living near Maa Tara Sweet House rushed out to see what had happened. There were two others in the car, who were extricated from the mangled vehicle and sent to MGM Medical College Hospital for treatment. Police said they had serious injuries.

OC of Sundernagar Jagdish Prasad said the youth who died had been identified as Dilip Singh (26), a resident of Narwa Colony in Sundernagar. The two others are his friends.

"From statements of local residents we have concluded that the deceased may have lost control while driving. The car was speeding," Prasad told The Telegraph Online.

The car that hit a lamp-post in Sundernagar in Jamshedpur on Sunday. Animesh Sengupta

The second mishap occurred when a truck carrying iron rods hit a tree in the middle of the Station-Parsudih Road near the Golpahadi turning at Parsudih at 2.30 am. Although the truck was also speeding, no one was injured.

But since the heavy vehicle had stopped in the middle of the road, traffic was stalled for hours.

OC of Parsudih Ajay Kumar confirmed that no one was injured in the mishap. "The driver of the truck was either drunk or had missed the tree which is in the middle of the road. We are probing the matter,” he said.

Notably, the presence of the tree in the middle of the Parsudih-Station Road makes the busy thoroughfare mishap-prone. Many commuters in cars and on two-wheelers have missed it on a number of occasions.