A 50-year-old man from Raichur district died after he and two others were hit by a pick up vehicle near Shankara Bhavan hotel in Kulai, on National Highway 66 on Saturday.

The Mangaluru Traffic North police gave name of deceased as Deepugouda alias Pompanagouda, 50, a resident of Sindhanur in Raichur District. He is relative of Sindhanur MLA Hampanagouda Badarli.

The names of injured persons are Pradeep Kolkar, 35, a resident of Karatgi in Koppal, and Nagaraj Umesh Amin, 42, a resident of Kodikere in Mangaluru. They are undergoing treatment in a private hospital in Mangaluru.

The police said four persons, including the three accident victims, came in a car and parked it by the roadside. They crossed National Highway 66 to have lunch in the hotel. After lunch, they crossed the road and were walking on the mud path towards their parked vehicle. Around 3 p.m., the pick up vehicle coming from Udupi hit a car. Then pick-up vehicle driver lost control over the vehicle and hit the three persons. Deepugouda was dragged along by the pick-up vehicle and it came to a halt after hitting the tail end of a parked goods vehicle.

Deepugouda died on the spot. A case under Sections 281, 285, 125(B) and 106 (1) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was registered against the driver of the pick-up vehicle.