In a tragic accident, a 30-year-old software engineer who was relocating from Hyderabad to join his new job died in a road accident near Yelahanka early yesterday morning. A native of Orissa, Aravind Mishra was supposed to join a city-based IT firm today. Mishra hired a cab from Hyderabad and around 6.15 am. Dada Prasad Babu (32), who was driving the car, is suspected to have dozed off when the cab reached near a coffee shop at Hunsamaranahalli on National Highway 4.

Horrific impact
According to eye witnesses, the vehicle, which was moving at very high speed, hit the median, turned turtle and the impact launched it into the air leading to a head on collision with a cement mixer coming from the opposite direction. As a result of the tremendous impact, both Mishra and Babu on the spot, and the car got completely wrecked, police said. The bodies have been sent to the M S Ramaiah hospital mortuary.