Three college students from India who have been attending universities in Connecticut died in a two-vehicle crash in western Massachusetts this week, authorities stated Thursday.
5 different folks have been taken to the hospital for therapy of accidents suffered within the crash at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday in Sheffield, in accordance with a press release from the Berkshire district lawyer’s workplace.
A northbound minivan occupied by seven folks collided with a southbound pickup truck with only a driver, authorities stated.
Six folks within the minivan attended the College of New Haven and one attended Sacred Coronary heart College in Fairfield, in accordance with the district lawyer’s workplace.
The three individuals who died on the scene have been recognized by prosecutors as Prem Kumar Reddy Goda, 27; Pavani Gullapally, 22; and Sai Narasimha Patamsetti, 22. The 4 individuals who have been within the van who survived have been all 22 or 23.Goda was learning for his grasp’s in laptop science at Sacred Coronary heart, the college confirmed. “Our heartfelt sympathy and prayers exit to Prem’s household, associates and people of you who knew him,” Dean Catherine McCabe of the college’s faculty of enterprise and expertise stated in a press release.
Patamsetti was a enterprise analytics graduate pupil and Gullapally was a civil engineering graduate pupil, New Haven Dean of College students Ophelie Rowe-Allen stated in a press release.
The motive force of the truck was a 46-year-old native man.The reason for the crash stays beneath investigation.
