Students have brought the vehicular movement along the BP Highway to a grinding halt in protest of unruly driving.

Students claimed that they resorted to disrupting the traffic services after college student girls were injured by a Tata Sumo jeep in a hit-and-run.

Rojina Karki and Manita Thapa, students of Sindhuli Multiple College had sustained injuries when the jeep hit them at Dhungebas in Kamalamai Municipality-4 this morning.

Critically injured Karki has been rushed to Kathmandu for treatment while Thapa is being treated at Sindhuli Hospital.

Agitating students hit the street and threw the vehicular movement out of gear calling for action against the guilty and arrangement of treatment to the injured students.

Superintendent of Police (SP) Chakra Bahadur Singh at Sindhuli District Police Office was quoted in Rastriya Samachar Samiti as saying, “Police have impounded the four-wheeler (Ba 3 Cha 6751) and detained its driver who had fled the scene after the accident from nearby Sindhuligadhi”. The SP pledged to take necessary action against the driver.

With the traffic halt, the vehicles from Kathmandu to Tarai districts and vice versa have been put on hold in Sindhuli.

SP Singh said preparation was underway to send the stranded vehicles to destinations through alternative routes.