By Shishir Prashant 
PrashantNews
A pall of gloom descended on the Vishal-Pav village in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand after Arvind Tripathi, an executive engineer in the state-run UJVN Ltd, was killed in a car accident which almost wiped out his entire family.
Tripathi, a civil engineer working in the UJVN’s headquarters in Dehradun, his wife and a son were killed in the accident which occurred on Thursday in Chamoli district. Tripathi’s second son who was also in the car is battling with life in a hospital.
Tripathi had gone to his home village Vishal-Pav to celebrate Diwali along with his three family members that included his wife Anita (51) and two sons Ambuj (24) and Anant (21).
After spending some time in his home village, Tripathi went to his in-law’s house in the nearby Devkhal village. On Thursday, he was returning home when all of a sudden, his car veered off the road and rolled down 100 meter deep.
Immediately after the car started tumbling down, Tripathi and his wife were thrown out. Within few seconds, the car fell on the down road with a big bang following which it caught fire, eye witnesses said.
While Tripathi died on the spot, his wife died in the district hospital in the evening. The younger son Anant also died when the car caught fire. However, Anant’s elder brother Ambuj, who recently got a job in TCS, managed to come out of the car. He was later shifted to AIIMS Rishikesh.
“This is very tragic incident. The whole UJVN family has mourned the death of our dear colleague Tripathi ji. A condolence meeting was also held in the UJVN headquarters,” said Vimal Dabral, a PRO of the UJVN.