A 26-year-old man was killed on Wednesday when his car caught fire after a container truck toppled over his vehicle at Vasant Village near South campus of Delhi University, police said.
The accident took place at 2.30 am when the container collided with a Honda Amaze at the intersection point below the Rao Tula Ram flyover, police said. The impact was so intense that the truck which was carrying several tonnes of cement dragged the car around 50-70 meters before coming to a halt.
After the crash, the container truck climbed the divider and its cabin in which driver and conductors were sitting, hit the Honda Amaze injuring two persons sitting inside the car, while half the portion fell on the on the opposite side crushing Maruti Swift parked at the road side, police said. Within seconds, the Swift car went up in flames killing the man sitting inside on the spot, said a police officer.
The deceased identified as Aneesh Jadhav (25), an IT professional and the son of an Army Colonel was the only occupant in the car and was a native of Pune, Maharashtra. Aneesh worked in a private company Nikon in Gurgaon and lived in Delhi.
The two occupants of the Amaze car, which was hit by the container below the RTR flyover — Akash and Sulekha — survived the massive crash with minor injuries. The errant driver abandoned the vehicle and fled the scene. He is still at large. Police have impounded the truck and they are trying to track its owner, said the police officer.
A case has been registered under Sections 279 (rash driving), 304A (causing death by negligence) and 337 (causing hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others) of IPC, the officer said. “Anees’s charred body was pulled out of the vehicle after cutting a substantial part of the damaged car’s body in a joint operation by Delhi Police and Delhi Fire Services,” said the officer.
His relatives were informed and his body has been sent for autopsy at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Further investigations are underway.