Deadly crash on Mirpur Beribadh
A deadly crash on the Mirpur Beribadh threw the two involved vehicles – a giant cement mixer and a small pick-up van – off the road today, leaving all parties miraculously alive.
The incident took place on the Mirpur-AshuliaBeribadh around 4:00pm this afternoon, said Shafiqul Islam, senior station officer at Uttara Fire Service and Civil Defence.
“It was a high speed collision. The cement mixer was heading towards Ashulia and the pick-up van was headed towards Dhaka, in the opposite direction,” he said.
The resulting collision threw both vehicles off the road and some 30 feet down to the ditch.
Three units of fire fighters reached the spot and rescued pick-up van driver Md Faruque, 29, with broken limbs, and a cook Momin Hossain, 35, in a bruised shape.
The driver of the cement mixer managed to flee from the spot.
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