Hyderabad police has informed that NT Rama Rao’s son Nandamuri Harikrishna, who died in a car crash on Wednesday, was not wearing a seat belt at the time of accident. “Harikrishna was thrown out of the car after it hit the median and fell on the other side of the road as the doors of the vehicle were flung open in the impact,” Nalagonda SP A V Ranganath told Hindustan Times.
“Had he used a seat belt, probably the impact would have been less and he could have survived. According to the other passengers in the car, he did not wear a seat belt and was also driving at high speed. He was also asking for a water bottle and missed noticing a slight curve on the road,” the SP said.
Nandamuri Harikrishna died in a road accident in Telangana’s Nalgonda district early on Wednesday at the age of 61. Harikrishna, a former Rajya Sabha member and a former Andhra Pradesh minister, sustained critical head injuries when the car in which he was travelling along with two others overturned near Anneparthi.
The vehicle, being driven by Harikrishna, hit the divider while overtaking a vehicle and collided with another vehicle coming from the opposite direction. He was shifted to Kamineni Hospital at Narketpally, where he succumbed. Two others accompanying him were injured.
Harikrishna, son of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) founder and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N.T. Rama Rao, was on his way to Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh to attend a marriage. He was a member of the TDP politburo and brother-in-law of TDP President and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.
He is survived by two wives Lakshmi and Shalini, two sons Junior NTR and Kalyan Ram, both actors, and daughter Suhasini. His eldest son Janki Ram was also killed in road accident in 2014 in the same district. In 2009, Junior NTR had escaped with injuries in a road accident, which also occurred in Nalgonda district.
