Mangalore: There was a mess of vehicles at Old Pumpwell road of Kankanady, Dec 14, when a container trailer Truck, full of motorcycles, plying on a busy city road, rammed into a motor cycle ridden by Valerian Pinto, whose limb was fractured, and a car d got damaged, but the truck-driver, probably drunk, not heeding to the yelling horns of fellow motorists on the congested road, drove off in his vehicle, and later took to his heels further away, eyewitness informed.
Pinto is a resident of Padil and has been hospitalized with a broken limb, while Kankanady rural police have registered a case against the unknown truck-driver who disappeared. The heavy had no business to move on a city road as per traffic rules, say the police, who have seized the vehicle.