Third year MBBS student dead, 1 critical after speeding MUV mows down bike-borne medicos

Thiruvananthapuram: In a fatal road accident, a third-year MBBS student of Sree Gokulam Medical College, Venjarammood, who was riding on a two-wheeler died after the bike was crushed down by a speeding MUV driven by a drunk driver, near Chantavila, in Pothencode on early Sunday morning.

The 22-year-old medico has been identified as Nithin Hari, who, along with his friend Vishnu Suresh, a student of the same college, was traveling to the Thiruvananthapuram central railway station when the incident took place around 4:30 am The latter has been admitted to Ananthapuri hospital in a critical condition.

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The police stated that Nithin, a native of Kothamangalam, Ernakulam was going to the railway station along with his friend to board a train to go home. However, they crashed with a MUV which was coming from the opposite direction, driven by a 31-year-old intoxicated Pratheesh, a resident of Kilimanoor.

There were reportedly around six men in the MUV, all of them heavily drunk. They were coming back after dropping their friend off at the Trivandrum International Airport.