A 30-year-old woman was killed and a 45-year-old man was seriously injured in two accidents on Saturday.

A lorry ran over Susmita Mallick who was crossing the road near the Judges Court Road-Diamond Harbour Road intersection around 9.30am, police said. Mallick was lying on the road for some time before cops arrived and took her to SSKM Hospital where she died.

Eyewitnesses told the police she had been flung a distance away and that the rear wheels of the lorry ran over her head. Passers-by stopped the lorry before alerting the cops. The driver has been arrested.

In the evening, a dumper hit Arindam Pandit who was on a bike near Sakherbazar on Diamond Harbour Road, leaving him with head and leg injuries. He is “in a critical state” in Vidyasagar State General Hospital.

The driver of the dumper has been arrested.