Accident due to overtaking, toll climbs to 4

Another student injured in the Honda City accident in west Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh died on Tuesday during treatment. This is the fourth death in the shocking car crash.

Garima Gupta, 19, was one of the seven students going to Narela in a Honda City car to write an exam when it crashed into a divider and toppled off a flyover on Monday. Two students, Ritu Singh and Sanchit Chhabra, died on the spot and the driver of the car, Rajat Sharma, breathed his last later in the evening.

Soon after Gupta’s death at AIIMS trauma centre on Tuesday, her parents donated her eyes. Earlier on Monday, Singh and Chhabra’s parents donated their eyes soon after their death.

“Two others, Rishabh Mavi and Raja Rastogi, continue to remain critical and their condition is being monitored by doctors at the AIIMS trauma centre,” Vijay Kumar, DCP (west), said. Rastogi underwent a brain surgery on Tuesday.

The seventh victim, Pranav Malik, is out of danger and is expected to survive even as he continues to remain hospitalised at BLK Hospital, said the officer. He gained consciousness in on Tuesday and told the police about the accident.

According to the DCP, Rajat was trying to overtake a motorcycle when he lost control of his car. “The car first rammed the road divider on the right before swerving towards its left to crash through the cement railing and fall off the flyover,” said Kumar.

The motorcycle remains unknown even as the police have registered a case of causing death by negligence, rash driving and causing hurt by negligent. Investigators had initially suspected that the accident was triggered by a tyre burst.

Meanwhile, Gupta’s family and friends said she had decided to travel in an overloaded car because cabs had refused to travel to her examination centre in Narela.