Three pedestrians died in three accidents across the city on Monday.

Swagata Saha, 55, a resident of Ranaghat, was waiting near a footpath outside a jewellery store in Ultadanga close to the Hudco crossing when a dumper hit her while trying to take a right turn on Monday evening, police said.

Saha was taken to NRS Medical College and Hospital where she was declared dead.

Officers of Maniktala police station said the dumper was moving at high speed and was close to the footpath to the left of the road where the woman was standing when the accident took place.

At that time, there were several people on the footpath, most of them waiting for public transport, the police said.

The dumper has been seized and the driver detained.

The driver does not have a licence and he could be aged below 18, according to the preliminary investigation. The dumper will be sent for a mechanical examination to ascertain if it had developed any technical snag, which led to the accident, the police said.

The other two accidents took place in the Sealdah area — one of them on the Sealdah flyover in the evening.

A man, whose identity could not be ascertained till late at night, was hit by a private bus on the flyover, the police said.

“It appears he had got off another vehicle on the flyover and was trying to cross the road near the flank leading to MG Road. He was hit by a bus while he was crossing the road,” an officer of Muchipara police station said.

The bus fled the spot after the accident.

Cops are scanning footage of CCTV cameras installed on the flyover to ascertain the identity of the vehicle from which he had got off and that of the bus.

“No one is allowed to get off or board any vehicle on the flyover. Had the victim followed the rule, he may have been alive today,” an officer said.

The third accident happened in the morning on AJC Bose Road in front of NRS Medical College and Hospital.

A woman, who lived on the footpath, was trying to cross the road while the traffic signal was green and was hit by a private bus, the police said.

The driver has been arrested on charges of causing death by negligence and rash and negligent driving.

According to police records, more than half of the people who die in road accidents in Calcutta are pedestrians.

A large number of pedestrian deaths are caused because of encroached and over-crowded footpaths, forcing people to walk or stand on the road, risking their lives.

Some pedestrian deaths are a result of lawlessness, the police said.