karur three people were knocked to death in a cartruck collision near karur on thursday morning the illfated people manoharan 48 his wife vairam gandhi 46 his brother balasubramaniam 40 sons kannan 24 and rahul 21 were on their way to thirunallaur saniswaran temple the couple and his brother balasubramaniam who was at the wheels were killed on the spot while the other two sons were grievously injured the family of five people started their journey from om ganesh nagar in coimbatores veera keralam in the wee hours of the day when the car they were travelling reached karapalayam near karur at 7am it hit against the cementladen truck coming in the opposite direction baramathi police rushed to the spot and admitted the two injured to karur government hospital meanwhile the truck driver who has not been identified fled the scene police have registered a case and are on the lookout for the driver of the vehicle manoharan was a record clerk in the psychology department of bharathiyar university in coimbatore while his wife was a former councillor in the veera keralam town panchayat their elder son kannan was working as software engineer in a thiruvananthapuram company while rahul was a first year b com student at a private college in coimbatore balasubramaniam was a real estate agent police said the truck driver swerved his vehicle on the right to avoid a pit on the side of the road when it accidentally hit the car headon the truck was coming from ariyalur