Three students of Amity university in Noida were killed and seven others were injured while going for a joyride to Murthal when their vehicle rammed into a tractor trolley loaded with bricks in outer Delhi's Alipur area on Saturday.
The incident was reported around 2 am when a Scorpio car that was hired by the BTech students, ran into a tractor on NH 1, police said.
“The car was being driven at high speed and the one driving it, likely lost control and rammed into the tractor trolley containing bricks,” said a senior police officer. “The car was completely mangled and the students were thrown out of the vehicle and were injured due to the bricks that fell on the vehicle due to the impact of the accident,” he said.
The deceased have been identified as Shikhar, Ujjawal and Rajesh. They were declared dead by the authorties of Satyawadi Raja Harish Chander (SRHC)Hospital, police said.
Shikhar belonged to Meerut while Ujjwal hailed from Bhiwani. They were the only children of their parents, said police. The students were themselves driving the vehcile and it seems that they were not quite adept at driving, police said, adding that they were taking turns to drive the vehicle.
The tractor driver escaped from the spot after the accident and police are searching for him to know the exact sequence of events. The injured students Subham(21), Pranav Pandey (20),Vijay (20), Shubham (19), Reefat (21), Vanshika (20), and Pooja (21), all IInd year students of B Tech, were admitted to the hospital.
Pranav Pandey and Shubham are in a critical condition and were shifted to lNJP Hospital, said MN Tiwari, DCP (outer) Delhi. "A case under sections 279 (rash and negilent driving) and 304A (death caused due to negligence) has been registered at Alipur police station.
Further investigations are underway," said Tiwari.
The traffic on NH 1 was affected due to the accident and police got it cleared by removing the vehicles from the road, that were later seized.