In two separate road accidents, five people were killed while two were injured in the wee hours on Monday in Gurugram. Police said that of those killed in two separate incidents, three were students while two worked with a private company.
In first incident, four friends — two students and two private company employees — were killed and the other was seriously injured after their car was hit from behind by a speeding bus, in Khetawas village on the Gurugram-Farrukhnagar road on Monday.
The horrific incident, which happened in the morning in front of a petrol pump, when the five friends in a Baleno car were returning from a farm house after celebrating the birthday of one of their friends, was captured in the CCTV camera installed at the pump. An FIR has been registered against the bus driver at Farrukhnagar Police Station. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital where four of them died and one is said to be still critical.
According to the police, victims were identified as Paras Batolar (22), a resident of HBC colony, Sector 29, Faridabad, Abhishek Chaudhary (23), a resident of Madhu Nagar, Agra, Jeshnaw Kakkar, a resident of Sector 28, Faridabad, and Aavin Chaudhary alias Nav, a native of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh. The person critically injured in the accident was identified as 23 year-old Nitin Sangwan, a resident of Baleswa colony in Faridabad.
Police said that the private bus was carrying Maruti company staff and was headed towards Gurugram coming from Charkhi Dadri.
In the second incident, a final year MBBS student was killed while his classmate sustained injuries when the car in which they were travelling collided with a stationary truck on Budhera Road around 12.10 AM on Monday.The deceased was identified as Sunny a resident of district Sonipat in Haryana. The complainant, Ankit, a resident of the same district, stated in his police complaint that the accident took place when he and Sunny the final year students of Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary (SGT) University in Budhera were returning to their college from Sector-83 on Monday morning.
The complainant alleged in his complaint that “I was driving my Creata car while Sunny was sitting on the rear seat and when they reached 50-metre Budhera Road the truck was parked on the wrong direction without any reflectors, indicator or parking lights and due to the headlights of oncoming vehicles, I could not notice the truck and our car collided with it”.
“I immediately took Sunny to SGT hospital where doctors declared him dead,” the complainant told the police.
“We are searching for the truck driver, who managed to flee from the spot, with the help of the vehicle registration number provided by the complainant. He will be arrested soon”, said assistant sub-inspector, Mandeep Kumar, the investigating officer of the case said.
The body of the victim was handed over the body to the kin after autopsy, he said.
An FIR under sections 283 (obstruction in a public way) and 304A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered against the errant driver of the truck at Sector-10A police station.