Toxicology test to be conducted on driver of minivan carrying 7 Indians

Mon, May 12 10:48 AM

A toxicology test will be conducted on the driver of the minivan, carrying seven Indians, which spun out of control and crashed into another car killing six of them in Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania police, however, has not made a determination of the cause of the crash.

The accident took place in West Springfield in Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon in which six Indians - Kaushik Deb (26), Manoj Jharia (35), Mili Jharia (28), Nitin Agarwal (29), Swati Agarwal (25) and Shubham Choudory (24) - were killed.

The victims were travelling to Niagara Falls.

Nitin Gupta, the seventh passenger, who was sitting on the front seat, escaped with minor injuries and was later discharged from the hospital.

Deb, Choudory, Jharia and Agarwal were working for Michigan-based information technology firm Syntel Inc.

A senior official from Syntel Inc. said the bodies of the victims were still at the accident site.

"The bodies of the victims are still at the accident site in Pennsylvania. Arrangements were being made to send them back to India. All involved families and Indian Embassy officials have been informed about the tragedy," James Jonathan, Chief Marketing Officer for Syntel Inc, said in a statement.

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