Chennai: A driver was killed after a maintenance truck collided with a mechanical sweeper engaged to clean the road, and fell to Marsh Palikaranai early on Sunday.
Five workers were injured.
The vehicle belongs to the Conservication Cornai Greater Corporation Urbaser-Sumsin contractor.
A few hours after the accident, TOI Lensman Ramesh Shankar, who reached the place and tried to photograph photos, surrounded and surrounded by maintenance agent staff.
They did not depend even after he told them that he was a photo journalist from the newspaper.
Ajith Prakash, a worker, grabbed his camera in an effort to prevent him from taking a photo of the accident.
Ramesh must call the police to restore the camera.
Police said Vignesh, 30 of Besant Nagar, who drove a truck, died in place.
The truck collided with a sweeper vehicle, lost control and fell into the swamp.
The vehicle was not removed until late afternoon.
Mehmood Sait, the Urbaser-Sumeet Chief Executive Officer, said that the accident occurred around 3.30 in the morning.
“The mechanical sweeper runs at a maximum speed of 10 km per hour cleaning the road.
This garbage truck is left behind.
However, we don’t know what happened after that.” The truck hit the sweeper and fell and fell to Marshland’s land.
We carry cranes and drivers of the earth.
However, we cannot save the driver, “he said.
He added that they were waiting for medical reports about what caused the accident.