Hindustan Times (Chandigarh)

Two killed, woman pilot injured as SUV on wrong side hits car on Gurugram underpass

- Kartik Kumar

GURUGRAM: Two persons were killed and a woman severely injured on Sunday morning after a taxi they were travelling in collided with an SUV that came towards it at a high speed from the wrong side of the road in the Cyber City- DLF Phase 1 underpass in Gurugram, police said.

The victims were in a white Swift Dzire, heading towards Indira Gandhi Internatio­nal airport. The errant car was a Mahindra Scorpio, police said. At the time of going to print, its driver was still absconding.

The incident occurred at 5.30am in the right lane of the carriagewa­y near Sikandarpu­r Metro station.

The dead were identified as taxi driver Vinod Kumar Yadav and Kishore Kumar Vishwas, who worked as a security guard. The third occupant, 30-year-old Suvarna Sripalli Gayatri, a pilot with Indigo, is admitted to Medanta hospital.

“An Indigo first officer was travelling by a service provider cab to Delhi airport for her flight duties this morning. The cab met with an accident around 5.30am near DLF Phase 1. Regrettabl­y, the driver and the security guard, who was accompanyi­ng the staff member, died on the spot.the Indigo employee has sustained injuries and is being treated in hospital... The first indication­s are that the accident was caused by reckless driving by the other car,” Indigo said in a statement.

Gayatri lives in Gurugram’s Sector 61.

“A case has been registered under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code at the DLF Phase 1 police station. Investigat­ions are ongoing to trace the accused, who absconded following the accident ,” said Ravinder Kumar, the public relations officer of the Gurugram police.

The police said that they had tracked the abandoned Scorpio’s registrati­on number, and based on the ministry of transport and highways website, the vehicle was owned by a Delhi resident Pradeep Kumar. The police also said a Member of Parliament sticker on the car’s windscreen was fake.

The underpass opened for traffic in March 15 last year. Last December, a 21-year-old motorcycli­st was killed there after being hit by a speeding sedan driven by a woman.

“The monitoring in Gurugram is extremely poor, right from the issuing of licenses till checking the traffic violations. As a result of which people in the city do not adhere to the traffic rules as they know the repercussi­ons are low,” Sarika Panda Bhatt, manager, cities and transport, World Resources Institute (WRI), India, said.

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