A pilot working with a private airline was killed after a trailer truck coming from the wrong side crashed into his Honda accord car on the Dwarka expressway near Sector-114 late on Sunday night.
According to the police, a resident of Sector 109 in Gurugram, Anmol Verma (40), was returning to his home from Delhi. At around 1.30 am on Sunday, when he reached the Dwarka Expressway near Sector-114 a trailer coming from the wrong direction hit the car from the front.
The pilot was seriously injured and was rushed to a private hospital by some passersby. They also informed his friend Pankaj Kaushal about the accident by using the pilot’s phone. Kaushal is also a pilot with another private airline.
Police said that the accident was so terrible that although the airbags of the car worked perfectly, the pilot was injured critically and later died in hospital during treatment. The front part of the Honda accord was badly mangled after the crash.
"We heard a loud boom and it sounded like an explosion. We weren't sure what it was and we went to the accident spot and saw that it was a horrible accident. We figured that there was a lot of speed involved. It was really terrifying and it was sad to see it,” a passerby told the police.
The trailer truck driver abandoned his vehicle and is still on the run. Police suspect that the truck driver may have been coming from the wrong way on the expressway which led to this accident.
“We have impounded the truck which has a Haryana registration number. With the number we are collecting information about the absconding truck driver. The body of the victim has been handed over to the family after an autopsy on Monday,” said Sandeep Kumar, station house officer (SHO) of Bajghera police station.
The victim was originally from Ambala. The pilot was living in Gurugram along with his wife and two months old son for the last few months. Anmol had joined the Merchant Navy as an engineer and later became a pilot.
A case of rash driving under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered at Bajghera police station against the absconding driver, the police said.