Two top Reliance officials were killed when their car was crushed between a trolley and a truck on the Jaipur-Delhi national highway.
JAIPUR: Two top Reliance officials were killed when their car was crushed between a trolley and a truck on the Jaipur-Delhi national highway.
The car driver was also killed in the mishap on Saturday.
According to the police, Satish Bansal, president of Reliance Petroleum Limited and Kuldip Bawa, vice-president, RPL, had come to Delhi from Mumbai a day earlier.
They were on their way to Jaipur on official work when their car got caught in a one-way jam in Manoharpur, about 65 km from Jaipur, as one side of the road was closed for construction work.
A trolley suddenly emerged and hit the car, that backtracked and was subsequently hit by a truck from behind. The car got enmeshed between the trolley and tractor, eyewitnesses said.
The police had a tough time extricating the bodies from the mangled car. The bodies were sent to the Sawai Mansingh Hospital for post-mortem.
The trolley driver, injured in the accident, was admitted to hospital.
The bodies will be flown on Sunday to Mumbai, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh for last rites.