Ludhiana, Dec. 17 -- Two separate accidents occurred within a span of 20 minutes late Monday night on the Jagraon-Sidhwan Bet Road near Leela village when a car and later a truck plunged into a distributary, allegedly due to the absence of a safety wall along the water channel. Three persons were injured in the accidents, police said.

According to police, the first mishap took place around 9 pm when a Swift car coming from Jalandhar lost control and fell into the drain. Gurjit Singh of village Sohian, along with his wife Balwinder Kaur, was returning from a doctor's visit.

Eyewitnesses said the driver was blinded by the headlights of oncoming vehicles and the absence of protective barriers on either side of the distributary worsened the...