City Outer Ring Road (ORR) once again proved death trap for VIP Sons with two accidents on Tuesday, one of them involving fatalities. While former Congress minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy's son was killed in one, three others were hurt in a vehicle pileup. Pratheek Reddy, son of the minister and two of his young friends became the latest victims of the tricky Outer Ring Road (ORR) near Kollur in Medak district. It was only a few months ago that former cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin lost his son in a bike mishap on the ORR in Cyberabad. Ayazuddin was riding a sports motorcycle along with his cousin Ajmal, when their bike crashed on Hyderabad's Outer Ring Road.

Tuesday's accident snuffed out three lives while the condition of another, who was in the car and was grievously injured, is said be critical. Nineteen year old Pratheek Reddy was studying first year BTech at CBIT in Gandipet. He, along with his classmates Sujeet Kumar, Chandra Reddy and Arohan Reddy, was returning to Hyderabad from his college in his Skoda car (AP 24 AH 9999). According to locals, the youngsters were driving the car at a very high speed on the ORR service road. Minutes after they entered the ORR at the outskirts of Kollur, two sheep strayed across their path, forcing them to swerve.The driver lost control and smashed the car into the divider. postmortem was performed on Pratheek Reddy's body, which was then shifted to their house. Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, deputy chief minister Damodar Rajanarasimha, Union minister for petroleum S Jaipal Reddy and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu were among those who extended condolences to the bereaved families

SOURCE SNEHA TV