Two persons, including a 29 years old civil service aspirant were killed when the auto rickshaw, he was traveling in collided with a speeding dumper near the Khalsa College on Thursday morning. The incident occurred, in North Delhi's Maurice Nagar and the errant driver was arrested from the spot.
The deceased were identified the auto rickshaw driver, Vijay Verma (45) and Vishal Gupta, the IAS aspirant, a native of Uttar Pradesh and lived in Mukherjee Nagar in a rented accommodation. Few days back, he had cleared his mains examination "The incident occurred on Thursday morning when the deceased Gupta hired an auto and was on his way to Sarai Rohila Railway station to pick his younger brother, who had just arrived from Vaishno Devi pilgrimage," a senior police officer said.
Police said around 5.10 am, the victims had just reached near the Khalsa college traffic signal and were taking the right turn from Kingsway camp side but the signal turned red. Suddenly a speeding mini dumper coming from Civil lines towards Kingsway camp collided into them.
The impact of the collision was so high and the dumper went inside the auto rickshaw. "The collision was such that the fire officials also arrived and cut the auto rickshaw into pieces and extricated the victims one by one. Fire officers took more than an hour to take the victims out from the auto rickshaw," the officer added.
The victims were taken to the Sushruta Trauma center where they were declared brought dead.