Mangalore, June 29: Two people were crushed to death in two separate road accidents in Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada districts on Thursday.
A physically changed pedestrian died on the spot when speeding pick-up truck plying from BC Road to Mangalore hit him at Adyar on the outskirts of Mangalore.
Punjanga Poojary (35) a resident of Bylahandi, was walking along the road when the accident occurred. The driver of the vehicle, Abdul Hameed, from Addoor, fled the spot. A case has been registered at Mangalore Rural Police Station.
In another accident reported from Shigehalli in Sirsi taluk, a 46-year-old woman died after a car rammed into her scooter.
Parvathi.G. Hegde (46), a teacher at the Government Higher Primary School was on her way to school when the accident occurred.
She breathed her last while she was being taken to Hubli for emergency treatment.
She is survived by husband, a son and a daughter. Sirsi Rural Police have registered a case against the car driver Timmappa Marya from Hunsehonda, for reckless driving.
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