Nandamuri Hari Krishna's elder son Janakiram passed away yesterday in a road accident near Akupamula cross roads on Hyderabad-Vijayawada highway. The Tata Safari he was travelling rammed into a tractor coming in the wrong direction.

The area is in Nalgonda district.Five years back, Harikrishna's younger son Jr.NTR also met with a road accident in the same district and the distance between the two spots is just 15 kms. On March 26th, 2009, when NTR was coming back to Hyderabad after completing his election campaign in Khammam, his car met with a road accident at Mothe near Suryapet in Nalgonda district. The Tata Safari, he was driving, somersaulted and ended in a roadside ditch. Actors Rajeev Kanakala and Srinivasa Reddy were also with him. NTR sustained injuries then.

But this time, Harikrishna lost his son. Sources say that Janakiram would have survived if he had put on his seat belt on.