Shajapur (MP), Oct 31 A couple and their two-year-old son were killed when a pickup truck crashed into the motorcycle they were riding in Madhya Pradesh’s Shajapur district on Saturday, police said.
The accident took place around 12.30 pm, about 40 km from the district headquarters, Salsalai police station house officer Janak Singh Rawat told PTI.
He said the pickup truck rammed into the two-wheeler near Godna village on the Salsalai-Sarangpur road.
The victims were identified as Ajit Pawar, a resident of Indira Colony in Ashta town of Sehore district, his wife Pooja and their son Shivanshu. All three died on the spot, he said.
The pickup driver tried to flee with the vehicle after the collision, but villagers chased and caught him, Rawat said.
The bodies were sent to the government hospital in Mohan Badodia for post-mortem examination and later handed over to the family members, Rawat said.
Police have registered a case against the pickup driver.
(PTI News)
