The doctor failed to cross the pool of water as his car was submerged (Representational)
Pudukottai (Tamil Nadu):
A doctor who was driving a car died after it was stopped in rain water at a railway underpass near Thudaiyur in Pudukottai district.
The woman, identified as Dr S Satya, was on her way from Hosur to her hometown Thudaiyur with her mother-in-law late on Friday night when their car got stuck in the underpass.
As per reports, Satya was trying to chase a lorry, which managed to cross the underpass amidst the stagnant water.
However, the doctors failed to cross the pool of water as their car was submerged.
Workers of another lorry came to their rescue and pulled them both out of the car. However, they could only save the mother-in-law.
According to the clarification issued by the Railway Department, according to the station master of the nearest station, it started raining at around 7.30 pm and during that time the water did not stop in the railway underpass.
The railways also said, “The main reason for water stagnation is that the existing culvert on the left was recently blocked by a nearby land owner by soil filling to avoid storm water entering their farming land. Has gone.”
“Also, due to the sudden heavy rains on September 17, storm water from the upstream village entered the Limited Use Subway (LUS),” he said.
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