KHARGONE: Three SBI employees were killed and two critically injured when their SUV crashed into the wall of a culvert in Bagarda area of MP’s Khargone district in the wee hours of Saturday.
Two of the dead are from Himachal Pradesh — Akshit Gautam, 26, a Kangra native, and Suraj Rajput, 26, from Chapdu. The third, Vipin Gurjar, 25, is from Patiala in Punjab. They worked in different branches of State Bank of India in Khargone district.
The accident took place on Mandleshwar-Mhow Road near Jam Gate, around 2.45am, when the victims were on their way to Indore to spend the weekend, Mandleshwar police station incharge Santosh Kaithwas said. According to police, the driver of the SUV was blinded by the full-beam headlights of an oncoming vehicle and slammed into the bridge. Vipin and Akshit died on the spot.
A Dial 100 vehicle took the survivors to a government hospital in Mandleshwar, from where they were transferred to Indore, 50km from the accident site. Suraj died on the way, Kaithwas said.
The one driving the car, Abhinay Bouddh, and his cousin Prateek – both natives of Rajasthan -- were admitted to MY Hospital in Indore and then shifted to a private hospital.
Except for Prateek , the others were SBI employees. Vipin was posted in Karhi, Akshit in the temple town of Maheshwar and Suraj at Kasrawad in Khargone district.
