Chennai: A woman was killed and her husband severely injured after their car crashed into a parked truck following a tyre burst near Avadi on Wednesday morning.The deceased, Shalini, and her husband, Thiagu, 42, a professor at a private university, were returning home to Govindarajapuram near Vellinagar in Guduvanchery after visiting Siruvapuri Murugan Temple for Tamil new year. Along the Vandalur Bypass Road near the tollgate in Avadi, their car’s rear tyre burst. That’s when the driver to lost control, causing the car to crash into the truck which was parked on the side of the road. Shalini died on the spot and Thiagu was grievously injured. Passers-by rushed him to Avadi Govt Hospital in a 108 ambulance. The body of the deceased was recovered by the Avadi Traffic Investigation Wing police and sent to Kilpauk Govt Hospital for postmortem examination. Police registered a case. TNN
