Three youths were killed and another was seriously injured after the motorcycle they were travelling on plunged more than 50 feet from a bridge at Kudsad village in Olpad taluka of Gujarat's Surat district, police said on Wednesday, October 21, news agency IANS reported.

The accident occurred between 11 pm and 11:30 pm on Tuesday, October 20, when all four youths were riding on a single motorcycle. According to Police Inspector K.A. Jadeja, the motorcycle struck the bridge's safety barrier at a sharp curve, throwing all four riders onto the railway bridge below.

The deceased were identified by police as Vikas Hiralal Verma, 19, Saurabh Ramlout Yadav, 18, and Vikas Chhotlal Verma, 26. The rider, Abhishek Verma, survived the accident and is undergoing treatment at Surat Civil Hospital, police said. The four youths were residents of Sayan village in the Olpad area, and police said preliminary information suggested they may have been employed at industries in the area, though their occupations had not yet been confirmed.

Inspector Jadeja told IANS that the injured rider had said the headlights of an oncoming truck had affected his vision as they approached the curve, so he could not negotiate the turn. Police, however, said the exact circumstances leading to the accident were yet to be established, and they have not confirmed the identity of any truck or whether it was directly involved. A 108 emergency ambulance team reached the spot after being alerted and shifted the injured youth to hospital. Police have opened an investigation and are seeking to establish the sequence of events from the survivor's account.