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An Inspector attached to the Coimbatore City Police died aft being tally implicit by a van connected Kamarajar Road successful the metropolis aboriginal connected Friday (September 26, 2025).
The deceased has been identified arsenic R. Banumathi, 52, who had been moving arsenic Inspector and presumption location serviceman of the All Women Police Station, Coimbatore South.
A autochthonal of Virudhunagar district, Banumathi had been residing with her lad and girl astatine Barathipuram successful Singanallur, Coimbatore.
The mishap occurred astatine 4.50 a.m. erstwhile Banumathi was connected the pillion connected a scooter ridden by her son.
The Inspector was connected her mode to Virudhunagar connected Thursday to be an grounds introspection successful a court. She arrived astatine Hope College connected Avinashi Road connected a autobus astir 4.45 a.m. and her lad came to prime her up.
According to the police, the Inspector’s lad attempted to overtake a van portion travelling connected Kamarajar Road towards Singanallur. He mislaid power of the scooter portion trying to debar collision with a two-wheeler that was coming from the other side. The parent and lad fell connected the roadworthy and the van ran implicit the former. The serviceman suffered terrible injuries to her little limbs and hip. Though she was instantly taken to the adjacent Government Medical College and ESI Hospital, she died owed to excessive humor loss, said the police.
Banumathi belonged to the 2004 batch. Senior constabulary officers, including City Police Commissioner A. Saravana Sundar, condoled her demise.
Poor information of road
The Hindu, in a caller report, had highlighted the mediocre information of Kamarajar Road, which was cause up to laic pipelines for the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation’s 24x7 drinking h2o proviso task six months ago. As some sides of the roadworthy were dug up, dense vehicles and cars thin to determination done the mid portion, reducing harmless motorable abstraction for two-wheeler riders.
The Highways Department has said repairs connected Kamarajar Road, which connects arterial Avinashi Road and Tiruchi Road, volition beryllium completed by the extremity of September.
