US Nagar cop killed in car-truck collision

Rudrapur: A 40-year-old sub-inspector posted in Udham Singh Nagar was killed in a road accident after his car collided with a brick-laden truck in the Jaspur Khurd region under the ITI police jurisdiction area of the district late on Wednesday night. The police officer was on his way to his room in the police barrack near the ITI police station when the accident took place.The deceased has been identified as Pawan Bhardwaj, the in-charge of the City Patrol Unit (CPU), Kashipur, and native of Shivpur village in the Kotdwar town of Pauri Garhwal.
The collision was so intense that the car was completely crushed. Senior police officers of the area, including ASP Pramod Kumar and CO Akshay Prahlad Kode, rushed to the spot. It took the police personnel around two hours to pull out the body with the use of electric cutters and a crane.
ASP Kumar said Bhardwaj was returning to the barrack around midnight when his car collided with a brick-laden truck near the Indane Gas agency at Jaspur Khurd. “He died on the spot. We sent the body for postmortem and subsequently handed it over to the bereaved family. The 2008 batch sub-inspector was given a tribute by the police department. It’s a big loss to the department,” ASP Kumar added.
Police have registered an FIR against the errant truck driver who is on the run and the truck has been impounded.