It may be recalled that barely four days ago, two policemen died when an over-speeding truck hit the two motorcycle-borne cops on a flyover on the same highway, near Lawrence School.

In a similar incident, a woman and her son died when a truck hit them at almost the same place. Another victim was a 15-year-old boy of Kartarpur, who was crushed by a truck five days ago.

Notably, truckers have been involved in a number of accidents on the Jalandhar-Amritsar highway in the past few months, causing more than 11 deaths.

When contacted, Jalandhar SSP Pawan Rai termed the recurring accidents as “unfortunate”. He assured that necessary action would be taken to check over-speeding and drunken driving.