Rash drivers again caused havoc on the roads of Dehradun on Thursday as a speeding car ran over a girl and a road side vendor at Nemi road of Dalanwala area of the city. Onlookers’ account suggests that a speeding SUV swayed and hit a twelve-year-old girl and a vendor selling bananas on the Nemi road before crashing into the boundary wall of a doctor’s residence. Eyewitnesses said that the car was being driven by an amateur driver.
locals rushed the injured girl Vishakha, daughter of Puran Basti, resident Vikas , and the vendor Sonu to the hospital. The police arrived on the spot and confiscated the vehicle. The Station Officer (SO) of Dalanwala Police station Anil Joshi said that the accident occurred at around 11 am but the police have not received any complaint. He said that the injured are admitted in the hospital and are out of danger. local MlA Rajkumar visited the injured in the hospital and asked the doctors to keep a vigil on their condition. Recently many cases of speeding vehicles causing hazard to the life of the citizens have occurred. It appears that the local police have failed to restrict these speeding vehicles.