Kurseong Rohini road accident

In a span of three days, once again, a major accident has occurred on Rohini road under Kurseong sub division area, today.

A Darjeeling bound Bolero vehicle met with an accident and first collided head-on with a downward moving Spacio vehicle, and then fell down around 25 feet down below the road into the valley.

With the help of locals and passer-by all the ten passengers along with the driver was rescued and sent to the Kurseong Sub Divisional Hospital where after primary treatment  three of them were admitted to the hospital itself while one was sent to the Darjeeling Sadar Hospital. The rest of the persons after getting medical aid were discharged.

As per some people even though the Rohini Road is a good one but to avoid such kind of frequent accidents several strict security measures have to be taken by the concerned authorities. At several places along the way on Rohini Road three are need for parapets as in accident site there were no such parapets constructed.

Some people also claimed that the way in which the Rohini Road has been collecting toll taxes, an ambulance must be bought and deployed on Rohini Road as at different places in the country where toll tax are raised there is also an ambulance  service ready at hand to help and rescue accident victims. As per them the several injured in today’s accident were not helped by some passing vehicles as they did not want to take them on board.

Notably on September 9, a major accident had also occurred along the route on Rohini Road in which a recovery van that had brake failed first hit two vehicles and bumped down several feet down the valley slope along with an Innova van that it had been carrying on the way to Siliguri.(EOI)