A 28-year-old software developer died in a road accident after her rented BMW sports bike was hit by a Hyundai Verna car here in Gurugram, police said.
According to the police, Somita Singh, a native of Lucknow, was on her way back home to Noida from Gurugram’s Leopard Trail area with her bike-riding group when a speeding Verna hit her bike, leaving her critically injured on Sunday.
However, the bike has suffered minor damage.
The police were informed about the incident by them, and the victim was shifted to the government hospital, where the doctors declared her dead after examination.
A team from the Badshahpur police station inspected the incident spot, and later they informed the deceased’s family and sent the body for postmortem.
On Monday morning, the deceased father, Mahendra Pal, reached Gurugram and took the deceased’s body after an autopsy.
Based on his complaint, a case under relevant sections was registered against the bike rider group at the Badshahpur police station on Monday.
It is being said that Somita joined the company in Noida about 8 months ago. Some youth in her company used to go on rides in the Let’s Ride India group, and she had recently joined that group. Therefore, Somita was also taking sports bike training without informing the family.
Let’s Ride group gives sports bike training to women and also rents sports bikes.
The bike with which Somita had an accident was also rented from this group. After this, she came to Gurugram with a group of women riders from Sector 135 of Noida. There were 20 to 25 women riders in it.In this accident, the accused has been identified and police have seized his car involved in the accident, police said.