Sindri: Five family members, including a child and two women, died when their car slipped from the road and fell into a trench in 20 meters at GT Round near Kauabandh in the Govindpur police station on Tuesday morning.
The family was walking to Asansi in West Bengal from Ramgarh Jharkhand district.
According to eyewitnesses, the car slipped from the road and jumped the bridge Kauabandh on GT Road and fell into the trench after running to the wall on the other side.
Local residents told the police who took out vehicles with the help of cranes.
Based on the aadhaar card found in the two men died, the two men had been identified as Wasim Akram and Shakeel Akhtar.
Their family had been told.
The body has been sent by Snmmch for post-Mortem, police said.
“The speedometer of the car was found locked at 150 km which showed that the car might travel at a speed of 150 km per hour at an accident,” police said.
In another accident, Suman Kumar, a sub-inspector at Jorapokhar PS from Dhanbad district, died on Tuesday.
The bicycle he drove crashed into a oil tanker near Loco Bazar at Sindri-Dhanbad Road Main Under Sudamdih PS on Tuesday afternoon.
Others riding a bicycle suffered a painful injury and had been treated at Snmmch.
The driver of the oil tanker was captured by the police.