In a tragic incident, an over speeding SUV knocked down a scooty, killing four members of a family, including two minors, in Vikas Nagar police station area in the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief at the deaths in the accident and directed the officials to take strict action against the driver of the SUV.
A police team, which reached the scene of the accident on getting information, rushed the victims to the King George’s Medical University Trauma Centre and seized the SUV. The victims were pronounced dead by the doctors.
Those killed were identified as Ram Singh (34), his wife Gyan Devi (31) and their sons Ansh (8) and Raj (13), all of Tambore locality of Sitapur district.
As per reports, the victims, all riding a scooty, were passing near the Gulacheen temple in Vikas Nagar police station area when an over speeding Scorpio hit the two-wheeler. The scooty, which got stuck under the SUV, was dragged up to 100 metres from the spot of the accident.
The high-speed Scorpio hit the scooty near Gulacheen temple at around 2 o'clock in the night on Wednesday. After the scooty got stuck under the Scorpio, the couple and the two children were dragged for about 100 metres.
“The couple and both the children who were trapped under the scooty were pulled out by the people and all four were rushed to the KGMU Trauma Centre where the doctors pronounced them dead,” eyewitnesses said.
DCP (North) Qasim Abdi said the accused SUV driver, identified as Rajendra Kumar Pal of Rajajipuram in Talkatora, had been arrested.
“The accused is a property dealer and has his office in Bakshi Ka Talab. He was heavily drunk when he was driving the SUV and that was why he could not apply brakes to avoid hitting the scooty, which was ahead of his SUV,” he said.
He said the SUV, which was abandoned at the accident scene, was seized.
“A police team found the owner of the SUV and he confessed to his crime during interrogation on Wednesday afternoon,” he said.
“We are examining the CCTV footage to find the actual sequence of the heart-rending incident,” he said.