Chennai: An unidentified elderly man died after being run over by a reversing truck on the Vanagaram-Poonamallee service road here on Friday night.Police said the accident occurred around 11pm when the man was sitting on the roadside. When the driver reversed the truck to park it on the Poonamallee-Vanagaram service road, its rear left wheel ran over the elderly man, killing him on the spot.The body was recovered by the Maduravoyal traffic investigation wing police and sent to the Kilpauk Government Medical College Hospital for postmortem.Police registered a case and arrested truck driver Kandeeban, 62, of Arumbakkam for negligent driving.
