Within a span over few hours, three people were killed while two persons sustained injuries in three separate road accidents due to fog in different parts of the national Capital on Tuesday night, said police on Wednesday. The first accident took place in outer Delhi's Kanjhawala area, the second and the third accident happened in Northwest Delhi's Rani Bagh and Keshav Puram areas respectively.
In the first incident, a 25-year-old man was killed while a 27-year-old man sustained injuries after their speeding motorcycle collided with an electric pole in outer Delhi's Kanjhawala area. The accident took place at around 9:30 pm when Ram Gopal (25) was returning home with his brother-in-law Hariom in his motorcycle.
Eyewitnesses told police that the speeding motorcycle hit an electric pole due to which the duo fell off the vehicle. One of the passer-by informed the PCR after which a team of local police rushed the duo to a nearby hospital where Ram Gopal was declared brought dead while Hariom suffered injuries. Police said both the persons worked as labourers and were returning home on their motorcycle when the accident happened.
In second road accident case, a 23-year-old man was allegedly crushed to death under the wheels of an unidentified vehicle in Northwest Delhi's Rani Bagh area.
According to police, the accident took place at around 11 pm on the Parwana road when a passer-by informed police that a man was lying in a pool of blood on the main road. local police rushed the man identified as Pinkesh (23) to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead.
Police said they have registered a case under relevant Sections of the Indian Penal Code at the Rani Bagh Police station against unknown persons. In the third case, a man in his mid thirties was killed while another man sustained minor injuries while their scooty was hit by a speeding truck at Northwest Delhi's Keshav Puram area.
Police said the accident happened around 11 pm at the lawrence road when Hansraj was heading to Trinagar to drop Mulayam Singh home. While they were standing at the red light on lawrence road, a speeding truck hit their scooty. In the mishap, Mulayam Singh died while Hansraj sustained grievous injuries.
Police said based on the complaint filed by Hansraj, they registered a case under relevant Sections of the Indian Penal Code at the Keshav Puram Police station.
A senior police officer said they arrested the errant driver, Jabbar Singh, 41, within few hours of the accident.