Gundlupet: In a collision between two lorries at Chikkahundi Gate, both the drivers and six labourers were injured, here on Saturday, December 1.
The accident occurred on the National Highway 722.
A lorry with the number KA – 25 – 5315, which was travelling from Gundlupet towards Mysuru with a load of firewood rammed into another truck with the number TN – 43 – 5176, which was transporting a load of cement to Kerala.
Driver Yogananda of the firewood truck has broken both his legs.
The labourers in the same lorry Siddaraju, Yogesh, Gopal, Siddaraju, Karthik and Venkatesh, were seriously injured.
Some of the passersby stopped their vehicles and helped the injured to K R Hospital through the 108 ambulance service.
Begur police rushed to the spot and helped lift the wrecked lorries and facilitated smooth movement of traffic.