In yet another hit and drag case reported from Delhi, a car collided head-on with a scooter in Delhi's Keshav Puram and drove on, dragging along one of its two riders, whose head got stuck between its mangled bonnet and the windshield. Both the riders died of injuries.
The incident took place around 3 am on Friday when the victims were returning home on the two-wheeler after watching a movie. According to the police, the incident occurred when five students, all aged between 19 and 21 were returning from a marriage function in an inebriated condition and speeding away on the road of Delhi in a Tata Zest car.
This comes weeks after a 20-year-old woman was killed in the early hours of the New Year after her scooter was hit by a car, which dragged her for 12 km from Sultanpuri to Kanjhawala in the national capital.
It was around 3 am at night on Friday when the said car rammed into a Honda Activa scooter at Prerna Chowk in Delhi’s Kanhaiya Nagar area. The men riding the cooter were identified as Kailash Bhatnagar ( 41) and Sumit Khari ( 21) of Loni in Ghaziabad.
After being hit by the car, Kailash who was driving the scooter jumped in the air and got stuck between the car’s windshield and the bonnet which had opened as a result of the collision and the the scooter under its bumper was intercepted by police around 350 metres from the spot of the accident as it accelerated towards Inderlok in a bid to flee, the officials said.
Bhatnagar was declared brought dead at the hospital, while Khari died during treatment, police said. The victims used to work at a jeans manufacturing unit.
Two of the car's five occupants were held, while the rest managed to flee but were apprehended later, a senior police official said.
They said the impact of the collision had flung the pillion rider of the scooter to the roof of the car and then he fell on the road.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (northwest) Usha Rangnani said a police control room (PCR) van saw the incident and chased the offending vehicle down. It was intercepted at a distance of about 350 metres from the spot within 11 seconds and its driver Parveen Nagar alias Silli (20) of Trinagar and Diviansh Puri (20) of Shalimar Bagh were apprehended.
The other occupants of the car, Om Bhardwaj (19), Harsh Mudgal (19), and Devansh (19), were nabbed later, police said.