'Allow us to go on this trip' - Dharwad accident victims' last words


Davangere/Dharwad, Jan 16 (IANS): In a major road mishap, at least 13 people, including 11 women, were killed and six others were critically injured when a tempo traveller collided with a truck near Itigatti village in Karnataka's Dharwad district on Friday morning.

Call it fate or a stroke of bad luck, eleven women passengers who met their tragic end and six of them who are still critical are friends from their childhood days and studied in same school - Saint Paul School - a popular convent school in Davangere district.

Premise of this trip was that they all wanted to relive their school days once again. They wanted to visit the same place, Goa, as they had done in their school days.

Apparently the accident took place, just a few minutes away from their scheduled stop at Dharwad, where they were supposed to get down at one of their friend's farm house to have breakfast and refresh and proceed ahead to Goa.

But unfortunately, their leisure trip turned out to be their last trip.

Among the deceased, Preethi Ravikumar is daughter-in-law of former BJP MLA Gurusiddana Gouda while her husband Ravikumar is a well-known doctor in the district and owns a hospital, while another deceased Veena Mattihalli Prakash is a well-known gynaecologist and married to a doctor from the same district whereas Paramjyothi is a relative of former Karnataka CM J. H. Patel.

A family source close to Gouda, on the condition of anonymity, told IANS that perhaps they were about a group of 15 women, who came from very well-off families and settled in various parts of the state, except Preethi, Veena and two more.

"All are of the same age group as they were classmates since class 1 and studied in Saint Paul school, which is still considered to be the best English school in the district. All these women were best friends and they were constantly in touch with each other through their WhatsApp group," the source stated.

The source further added that they used to go on jolly trip regularly and perhaps for the first time they decided to go on a tour but without taking their kids along with them.

"Call it premonition or anything. This time all of them decided to go on their own," the source claimed.

For Preethi, this was the second trip to Goa in gap of less than a week, as she had gone to Goa with her family and stayed there from holiday. "She was not listening to anyone, as she wanted to relive her school life with her best friends and Goa is just meant to achieve that objective was her explanation. It might be the case with others too," the source said.

Even though some of the family members took objections to their travelling plans as they decided to leave Davangere at wee hours of morning that too soon after the festival, excited women were in no mood to listen to anyone saying that one last time allow them to go on a trip with their friends.

They took a selfie just before leaving Davangere and captioned it as - "Go Goa with school Buddies".

This tragic incident has caught the people's attention, with several leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Karnataka Chief Minister, B. S. Yediyurappa, Leader of the opposition, Siddarmaaiha and former Karnataka CM, H.D. Kumarswamy condoling the death of these women and prayed for quick recovery of those survived.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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  • Kuttappa A G, Kodagu district Karnataka

    Sat, Jan 16 2021

    Call it a ill fate or destiny's design, just loss of words !!!!

    I assume a trip to Goa is kind of cursed because few years ago a family of eight had met the same fate from my town.

    Lot many reasons, bad roads / bad light / drivers fatigue / over speed etc sadly life lost.

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  • Flavian, Manngalore/Kuwait

    Sat, Jan 16 2021

    Sad and untimely indeed.
    We cannot draw any inference or presume any ill reasons. All question of bad times. When fate is destined tha is bound to happen. Very very sad

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  • John, Mangalore

    Sat, Jan 16 2021

    RIP.
    4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a passing shadow. Psalm 144:4

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  • Pili, Mangalore

    Sat, Jan 16 2021

    Fate. God pls be kind to their families to live their life.

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  • Vincy, Bangkok

    Sat, Jan 16 2021

    Precious Lives Lost for no fault of theirs....
    We lose Thousands of Lives every day...
    Not a single minister will talk about improving the roads or widening it with dividers between roads.
    Every day we are losing hundreds of people around the country.
    Tons of money is spent in hospitals.
    Tons of money spent on insurance premiums
    Not a single minister talk about widening roads and making it accident free.
    Not a single Police,IPS,IAS officer makes a effort to keep the roads safe from accidents.
    Every day every minister is condoling the death.
    China is bigger and more populated and the accidents rates are less than 10% compared to India.

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  • Victor D Costa, Bejai Mangalore

    Sat, Jan 16 2021

    Sad news what a tragedy. This shows how reckless driving we do , secondly the roads are like serpentine nature , at least its time to have good straight roads and strict rules like Gulf and other countries where the punishment is sevete and fines are exorbitant

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  • Nagesh shetty, Surathkal Manglore

    Sat, Jan 16 2021

    Very Sad....RIP...
    Precious Lives Lost for no fault of theirs....
    We lose Thousands of Lives every day...
    Sadly the Authorities dont take note of these Accidents....
    The Reckless Drivers should be Jailed n Their Licences suspended/Revoked..
    Likewise the Contractors for Poor build quality n Maintainance..
    Proper Multilingual Signages/Wrning boards should be put up..
    No Advertisement boards 100 metres before n beyond these Boards..
    THe Authorities /Politicians should just Hop across the Arabian sea and see for themselves the Beautiful Roads n Driving culture there..(as if they not done yet ??!!)..
    Till then God Save us All.....

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  • Kudla Stories, Kudla

    Sat, Jan 16 2021

    So the tipper mrnace has been prevalent for ages now. The tippers especially without loads are like a murder weapon in the hands of irresponsible drivers.

    However there hasn't been much efforts from the authorities to rein in the tippers killing spree. We will have to wait and watch if the authorities get serious about this and take stringent action. If not all the deaths will be in vain and the condolences will remain a eye wash.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, Jan 16 2021

    No one can challenge 'Gods Will' ...

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  • Roopa, Bondel, Mangalore

    Sat, Jan 16 2021

    Very Sad & Tragic Incident. May they rest in peace.

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  • abdul munim, mangaluru

    Sat, Jan 16 2021

    Indian roads are not at all suitable for night time travel.

    Even during day time it is difficult with many curves, potholes, roadwork going on without any sign of it quite ahead etc etc

    On one way still people can drive..but again there are lots of vehicles which come from opposite direction in one way also. Such is the pathetic situation on roads in third world countries.

    So my advise would be to avoid night journey as far as possible in small vehicels like car, TT etc. Only buses and trucks it is okay. They can still withstand some amount of collision.

    Very sad incident. May they rest in peace.

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  • Asif, Karla

    Sat, Jan 16 2021

    Tempo traveller is very much unsafe to travel ,many TT travellers met with fatal accidents

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  • rathan, Mamgalore

    Sat, Jan 16 2021

    Why they started at wee hours at 3 in the morning?that is called fate

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  • Wilson Monteiro, Kadri, Mangalore

    Sat, Jan 16 2021

    Very sad and tragic incident. Authorities must take a note of unsafe practices while at Driving and to improve safety standards and stop occurring again. Heartfelt condolences to all the bereaved families. May their souls rest in peace.

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