A 30-year-old, marketing executive of Royal Enfield, and his female friend, who was employed with Google, died in a road accident on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday after the motorcycle they were travelling collided with a jersey barrier near Genpact crossing on Golf Course Road. Police suspect the bike, being driven by the marketing executive, was travelling at a high speed, which could have caused the accident.
The deceased has been identified as Kevin Martin, who hailed from Kerala and was working as a marketing executive at Royal Enfield's head office in Gurugram's Sector 32, and Anvita Kant, a 27-year-old engineer who hailed from Faridabad's Sector 21 area and had recently joined Google, where she had been working for the past month, the police said.
According to police, the incident occurred at the Genpact crossing, on the side of the carriageway used by vehicles travelling towards Sector 56.
“The two were travelling on Golf Course road, Kevin was riding a Royal Enfield bike, provided by his company, at high speed with Anvita as pillion rider when he lost control and collided with a jersey barrier near the Genpact junction on Golf Course Road. Kevin died on the spot while Anvita was taken to Paras Hospital where she was declared brought dead by the doctors,” said Subhash Boken, spokesperson of Gurugram police.
The impact of the collision was so intense that Kant was thrown off the vehicle and landed around 50 meters away while Martin was dragged with the vehicle for around 25 meters, the police said.
“The front portion of the vehicle was completely damaged, indicating that they were travelling at a very high speed. We suspect that Martin lost control of the vehicle which leads to the drastic accident,” Boken said. “The body of the victim has been kept in the morgue and their family members have been informed about the incident. Autopsy will be conducted after the families arrive here. No FIR has been registered in this regard. The investigation is going on”, “the PRO added.