On a Thursday in March, a car carrying five people home from Calicut airport lost control at Morayur in Malappuram district and struck a bus from Palakkad head-on. It is the kind of ordinary road journey that Kerala's families make countless times, and here it ended in the loss of three lives, the driver and two women among them. The ones who remain are in hospital, and the account leaves unanswered what caused the car to slip from the road's control, a question that belongs as much to the living as to the police.
Three Killed as Car Collides Head-On With Bus at Morayur, Malappuram
Three people died, including the driver Shiyas, 23, and two women, Sakeena, 42, and Fasila, 19, while two other passengers were seriously injured.
A drive back from the airport that ended on the road at Morayur
Mark
Three people died in one crash. What do we actually know about what happened?
Mimi
Quite little beyond the outline. A car returning from Calicut airport met a bus from Palakkad head-on at Morayur. Shiyas, 23, was driving, and he died along with Sakeena, 42, and Fasila, 19.
Mark
They were taken to different hospitals. Does that matter?
Mimi
It shows how the hours went. Sakeena and Fasila reached a private hospital at Kondotty and died there. Shiyas went to the Manjeri medical college hospital and died soon after.
Luke
The report says the car lost control. Is that established, or just the first description?
Mimi
It is stated as fact in the report, but no source is given and no cause is offered. Police findings haven't been reported.
Luke
So we shouldn't say why it lost control.
Mimi
Right. Speed, road surface, a mechanical fault, driver fatigue: none is mentioned, so none can be assumed.
Mark
And the two survivors?
Mimi
Afreeda and Ibrahim are in Kozhikode Medical College Hospital with serious injuries. That is all that has been said.
Luke
We also don't know how these five were connected, or whether anyone on the bus was hurt. The report is silent on both.
Der Puls
- A car skidded out of control on the Morayur road and slammed head-on into an oncoming bus from Palakkad.
- Three occupants died within hours, scattered across two hospitals in Kondotty and Manjeri.
- Driver Shiyas, 23, died at Manjeri hospital after the two women, Sakeena, 42, and Fasila, 19, were lost at Kondotty.
- Two other passengers, Afreeda and Ibrahim, remain in serious condition at Kozhikode Medical College Hospital.
- Police have yet to publish findings on why the car lost control, so the cause remains open.
On a Thursday in March, a car carrying five people home from Calicut airport lost control at Morayur in Malappuram district and struck a bus from Palakkad head-on. It is the kind of ordinary road journey that Kerala's families make countless times, and here it ended in the loss of three lives, the driver and two women among them. The ones who remain are in hospital, and the account leaves unanswered what caused the car to slip from the road's control, a question that belongs as much to the living as to the police.
A car carrying five people home from Calicut airport collided head-on with a bus at Morayur, in Malappuram district, on Thursday. The bus was coming from Palakkad, and the car, badly damaged in the impact, had lost control before it struck.
Three of the five did not survive. Sakeena, 42, and Fasila, 19, were rushed to a private hospital at Kondotty, where doctors could not save them. Shiyas, 23, who had been driving, was taken to the Government Medical College Hospital in Manjeri and died soon after arriving.
The two others in the car, Afreeda and Ibrahim, were admitted to the Government Medical College Hospital in Kozhikode with serious injuries. Their condition is described as serious, and no later update has been reported.
The report does not yet explain why the car lost control, nor does it describe the road or weather or the people on the bus. What remains is a drive back from the airport that ended at Morayur, and a wait for police findings and for news of the two still in hospital.
A car carrying five people home from Calicut airport collided head-on with a bus at Morayur, in Kerala's Malappuram district, on Thursday. Three of the five died. The other two are in hospital with serious injuries.
The dead are Sakeena, 42, Fasila, 19, and Shiyas, 23. Shiyas was driving. According to the report, the car lost control and struck the bus, which was coming from Palakkad, head-on. The car was badly damaged in the impact.
The injured were taken to different hospitals. Sakeena and Fasila were rushed to a private hospital at Kondotty, where doctors could not save them. Shiyas was taken to the Government Medical College Hospital in Manjeri. He died there soon after arriving.
Two other passengers in the car, Afreeda and Ibrahim, were admitted to the Government Medical College Hospital in Kozhikode with serious injuries. Their condition is described as serious, and no further update on them has been reported.
The report does not say how the car came to lose control, and it gives no account of road or weather conditions at the time. It also does not say what happened to the people on the bus, or whether the bus driver has given a statement. It does not state how the five in the car were related, or how long they had been travelling.
What remains to be learned is the cause of the crash, which police findings may eventually clarify, and whether Afreeda and Ibrahim recover. For now the facts are a drive back from the airport that ended on the road at Morayur, with three lives lost.
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