Twelve schoolchildren of a private school were injured as the school van carrying them turned turtle after it was hit by a speeding vehicle at Swami Dayanand Nagar at link road no 1 under TT Nagar police station area in the morning on Saturday.
According to the police a school van was hit by a speeding car at around 7 am injuring around a dozen school children of Anand Vihar School. The injured students escaped with minor injuries but went in fear due to the accident and started crying. The commuters and locals rushed to their rescue. The injured were taken to JP hospital. After providing the first-aid, injured students were handed over to their parents.
The driver of the van and errant girl driver of the car were booked for rash driving.
The car was driven by 20-year-old Alisha Jaiswal, who is daughter of Ashok Jaiswal owner of Mayo hospital. She was on her way back to home after playing badminton at Arera Club.
A case under section 279 and 337 of the IPC has been registered and further investigation has been started.
The driver of the van claimed that the car driven by the girl was speeding and at the turn she was not able to control the vehicle and rammed into the van injuring the students.
The injured students were identified as Aradhya Bhardwaj, Shashank Tiwari, Swarth Agrawal, Gaurav Pandey, Kushal Yadav, Utkarsh Agrawal, Stuti, Kamashi, Bhumi Yadav, Siddharth, Nitin Sharma and Shreya Deskhmukh. The injured were students of class 2 and 3.