coimbatore three members of a family and a grocery shop owner were mowed down by a sports utility vehicle suv at rangapalayam on the kangeyam road in tirupur on sunday morning the deceased were identified as r mithun17 a class xii student and a resident of senthil nagar at neelikadu near mudhalipalayam pirivu in tirupur his mother r jeeva 43 and his sister r mirchile 15 a class x student and p lingasamy 47 who was running a grocery shop at rangapalayammithun his mother and his younger sister were returning to their home from a relatives house at rangapalayam on a scooter mithun was riding the vehicle lingasamy was on the way to his shop from his home on a mopedn madan kumar 25 of pothipalayam near kangeyam who drove the suv fell asleep at the wheel causing the accident police sources said he was on the way to his home after dropping some relatives in tirupur after hitting the twowheelers the suv crashed into a tree lingasamy and mithun died on the spot the avinashipalayam police sent jeeva and mirchile to the coimbatore medical college and hospital cmch but they died on the way to the hospital a police officer saidthe bodies were sent to the palladam government hospital for postmortem and were later handed over to the families the avinashipalayam police registered a case and arrested madan kumar