Nine-year-old crushed to death as lorry driver fails to engage handbrake

HYDERABAD: In a tragic incident, a 9-year-old boy died after getting hit by a DCM van in Alwal on Thursday.

The child Tirupal was walking along with his mother when an unmanned DCM lorry hit the child and his mother. The driver of the vehicle had parked the vehicle on the opposite side of the road and had not applied handbrakes.

“The driver of the DCM had parked his vehicle in front of the outlet and failed to lock after applying handbrake. The vehicle went in reverse direction and hit the mother and child. Tirupal sustained serious injuries and shifted to hospital where he died,” the police said.

The mother-child duo was heading to a hospital in Kothapet where the father of Tirupal was admitted due to health issues. The Alwal police registered a case and are investigating.