Two persons were killed in a road accident on the Outer Ring Road near Kollur Exit 2 on Sunday afternoon when a cold-storage van allegedly hit a worker watering plants along the median before colliding with an HMDA water tanker.
The accident occurred around 1.25 p.m. on the Kokapet-Patancheru stretch of the ORR. The worker, Boda Veru Naik, 30, a resident of Tellapur and native of Mahabubabad district, and the van driver, Srinath Sanju, 30, of Kompally, Medchal, died on the spot.
According to the police, the Ashok Leyland cold-storage van first struck Naik while he was watering the median plants and subsequently collided with the HMDA water tanker.
Police reached the spot and shifted the bodies to the mortuary at Patancheruvu Hospital. The damaged vehicles were cleared from the road following the accident. A case has been registered and an investigation is underway.
Published - October 25, 2026 08:14 pm IST