One killed, 2 injured in South crash

HOURS before her youngest son was killed and another injured in a car accident on Saturday night, Savitri Partap said she felt a chill run through her body. Partap, a mother of eight, said: “I just started to feel different. I didn’t know what it was. I went in my room and like I hear a bang in my head.” By 10.30 pm Partap was kneeling at the roadside holding her 20-year-old son, Rajnath Sookram, who died at the scene of the crash. “The body was still warm. The police kept everybody away but allowed me to touch him because he is my son. Although he had blood running from his nose, he looked like he was sleeping”, she recalled. Sookram died almost a quarter of a mile away from his home at Poonah Road, Whiteland, after he was pitched out of the vehicle which his older brother, Indar, was driving.  Indar, 25, and another passenger, Jim Jerry, managed to walk out of the mangled wreck, but are still warded at hospital.

Police reports indicated that around 9.30 pm, Indar lost control of a Datsun 120Y and hit a concrete driveway to a house, which caused the vehicle to capsize and land on its  hood in a drain. Police suspect that Indar veered off the road when rounding a bend and skidded alongside the wall of the home of the Dipchans on Poonah Road. The impressions left by the car on the grass and the front wall showed that Indar tried to get back on the road when the back wheel of the car hooked on to the concrete drain, causing it to flip on its hood. Partap admitted that Indar, Rajanth and Jerry left home around 3 pm after having a few drinks. She said: “They had something in a chubby bottle drinking, and I heard one of them say ‘this thing will freak you out boy’.” Gasparillo Police are continuing investigations.