Kundapur: A ghastly accident in which a car collided with a bus has claimed the lives of two persons and grievously injured one at Nellikatte Junction on Sunday, July 16th.

The deceased have been identified as Deekshith (21) from Malyady Hegde Mane and Kiran (22) from Hosamatha Charokotti. The seriously injured person has been identified as Arun (21) from Holthur.

The victims were returning back in two cars after visiting Tombhattu waterfalls near Siddapura when their car crashed into the oncoming Durgamba bus in their opposite direction. Deekshith died on the spot while Kiran lost his battle for life while being shifted to the hospital.

Arun was seriously injured and has been admitted at the Manipal hospital while the other passengers indentified as Jeevan Shetty and Manish Shetty sustained minor injuries and have been admitted to another hospital.

It is said that the passengers in the car were volleyball players and it crashed into the bus while attempting to overtake another vehicle.

Kundapur DySp Dinesh Kumar has visited the spot and a case has been registered at Kundapur traffic police station.

The road turn near the Nellikatte bus stop is dangerous and is also an accident prone location. The road reaching this turn from its entry point to its exit point is straight to about 500 meters and a vehicle plying at a considerably speed is suddenly confronted by the turn which mostly leads to the loss of control of the vehicle and thereby crashing into the oncoming vehicle. Therefore, the localities are demanding the widening of the road.