Chennai: 16-year-old girl killed under MTC bus wheel
Priyanka was not wearing a helmet when the accident happened
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-08-10 05:23 GMT
Chennai: A 16-year-old girl studying in plus two class died when the two-wheeler she was riding hit an MTC bus on Sunday afternoon while negotiating an U-turn on Velachery main road in Medavakkam.
The deceased was identified as D. Priyanka, a resident of Jayalakshmi Nagar, Vijayanagaram and a student of Christ King school. She was not wearing a helmet when the accident happened.
“We don’t think she had the driving license as well,” the police said. She was driving her scooty pep, with registration number TN 14C 7546 on Velachery main road, when she U-turned towards Tambaram.
She hit a moving MTC bus (route number 95) plying between Tiruvanmaiyur and Tambaram and got entangled in the back wheel of the bus. She was killed on the spot.