Oklahoma: Two technocrats and their wives were among six people killed in a road accident in the United States.
The accident occurred when the victim’s minivan had a head on collision with a tractor-trailer on a highway.
Police identified the victims as Bhaskar Jha, his wife, Annu Jha and their two children aged 1 and 3. The other two were Jha’s colleague Agni Pal Singh and his wife.
The accident that occurred on Highway 69 in Mayes County near Chouteau in rural Oklahoma on January 8
Jha, who hailed from Madhubani district in Bihar, drove the vehicle and apparently lost control because he was travelling too fast for the wet road conditions, The Kansas City Star reported.
Investigators said it was raining at the time of the crash and the minivan was driving too fast for those conditions. They added that the area of the highway between the towns of Mazie and Chouteau is especially dangerous during bad weather, The Hindu reported.
Jha’s relatives in New Delhi said that he was working as a senior associate with Cognizant Technology Solution for over one year and that the news was broken to them by company officials.
“We are still waiting for the dead bodies and it has already been five days since the accident took place,” said Jha’s younger brother Prem Shankar Jha.
Singh’s eight-month-old child, the only survivor of the mishap, is undergoing treatment for serious injuries.
Prem said he has approached the Ministry of External Affairs and requested its intervention to speed up the process of repatriation of the dead bodies.
Oklahoma road accident, Mayes County, Chouteau