Apart from the five deaths, two others were injured in the accident that took place near Thiruthani after a lorry collided with a car.
Five students of a private university died in a road accident on the Chennai-Tirupati National Highway in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur, police said on Monday. Apart from the five deaths, two others were injured in the accident that took place near Thiruthani.
The students belong to a private university, news agency ANI quoted KK Chatram Police as saying.
According to police, a lorry collided with a car.
In another incident, three school students were injured after a car driven by a 22-year-old man knocked them down in Maharashtra’s Thane district, police said on Sunday.
The incident took place on Saturday morning when Nikhil Tapeshwar Sharma (15) and his friends Dipesh Jitendra Sharma and Prince Ramesh Sharma, both aged 12, were walking to their school in the Kalyan area.
Accused Tanmay Anil Rane, who was driving a car, lost control over the wheel and the vehicle hit the three boys, injuring them, an official said.
Rane then rushed the injured students to a hospital. The boys were discharged after treatment, he said.
Police have registered a case against Rane under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Motor Vehicles Act, he added.