Loose tire kills six-year-old boy while urinating on Hyderabad’s ORR
Hyderabad: A young boy lost his life after he was struck by a tire while urinating on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) in Hyderabad, Telangana.
The deceased victim has been identified as a six-year-old boy named Mokshit Reddy, from Patelguda village in Ameenpur Mandal.
According to the Ameenpur police, the boy was traveling with his family in a car on Sunday night when the incident occurred. The family had stopped their vehicle on the ORR near Sultanpur after Mokshit Reddy expressed the need to urinate.
While the boy was urinating, a tire from an unknown vehicle suddenly rolled toward him at high speed, causing severe injuries.
The parents immediately rushed their son to a private hospital in Muttangi and later transferred him to another hospital in the city for further treatment.
Despite medical efforts, Mokshit Reddy succumbed to his injuries on Thursday evening. The police suspect the tire may have come loose from a vehicle traveling on the ORR.
A case has been filed, and an investigation is underway to determine the exact circumstances of the incident.
It has been reported that two young cousins were killed on the night of June 2 (Saturday) when a drunken water tanker driver crashed into them on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) near the Himayathsagar junction. The victims, Tarun from Kottaguda and Manisha from Ghatkesar, had parked their car on the roadside near the Police Academy and were standing outside when the accident occurred.
In another incident, a ninth-grade student was tragically killed by a truck on the Medchal ORR after stopping for nausea on May 26.
The victim, M. Poojitha Ram, 13, exited the vehicle to vomit and was struck by a speeding DCM truck. The boy was a resident of Bhadrachalam. He had traveled to Hyderabad with his family to visit relatives in Kukatpally during the summer vacation.
