A 58-year-old trader died after his car was hit by a speeding SUV at Asharam trisection located under Gandhi Nagar police station area on Sunday while he was on his way to Raja Bhoj airport.
At the time of the accident, he was going to the airport to pick his wife.
Station in-charge Praveen Tripathi said that Rajeev Kapoor of Vivekananda Colony, Ayodhya Nagar, has a shop Kapoor Hardware in Indrapuri and was an active worker of BJP for long. On Sunday afternoon at around 3.30 pm, he had left in his Creta car from Ayodhya Nagar to go to the airport to pick his wife and as soon as he reached Asharam trisection his car collided with the high speed Ertiga car.
In this accident, Rajeev Kapoor suffered a serious head injury when his head hit the dashboard of the car. The people present there took him out of the car and took him to hospital, where the doctors declared him dead.
At the turning point, suddenly the Ertiga car came from the front and both the cars collided with each other. Police have seized the car after registering a case against the Ertiga car driver. The accused car driver escaped the spot.
Meanwhile a 42-year-old woman died on Monday morning who was injured while cooking at her house in Subhash Colony Industrial Area under Ashoka Garden police station area on Thursday.
At the time of cooking Malti Bai's saree caught fire and her mother in a bid to save her suffered severe burns. Both were admitted to Hamidia Hospital for treatment where the daughter died during treatment in the early hours of Monday.
Malti Bai and Chironjia Bai were present in the house at the time of incident.