TWO CHARRED TO DEATH AS CAR CATCHES FIRE AFTER ACCIDENT
Accident reported at Delhi-jaipur Highway in early hours of Sunday
GURUGRAM: In a horrific road mishap reported from the Millennium City, two persons were charred to death in the early hours of Sunday after a heavy vehicle rammed into the Cng-run taxi the duo was travelling in, causing it to burst into flames.
While one of the victims who succumbed to horrific burn injuries has been identified as the driver Manpreet, the passenger in the taxi is yet to be identified, whose body was burnt beyond recognition.
The incident took place at Rajiv Chowk flyover on the Delhi-jaipur Highway in the wee hours of Sunday.
Police said the offending driver and the vehicle that hit the taxi are yet to be identified and located. They added that it may have been a heavy vehicle, travelling at a very high speed, that rammed into the CNG- run Swift vehicle.
The poor levels of safety on Gurugram roads can be ascertained from the fact that in the span of just three days, eight people have lost their lives in different accidents.
On Thursday, four mem- bers of a family, which included two girls under the age of six, lost their lives in Sohna, after a cantor hit the motorcycle they were travelling.
This was followed by the death of two students of Amity College, after their cars rammed into a heavy vehicle on Friday. The incident also revealed the perils of travelling in Cng-run vehicles.
In March, a person from Rajasthan died after the CNG vehicle he was travelling in caught fire at the Golf Course Extension road. The body was charred beyond recognition and it took a long time for the forensics team to identify the man.
There have been various instances in the past when Cng-fuelled vehicles have caught fire. Recently, a CNG run private school bus that was carrying children caught fire at the Dwarka Expressway. There were, however, no grievous injuries and all children travelling in the bus were saved.
Similar incidents have also been in Haryana public buses.
The risk to commuters can be gauged from the fact that on an average, as many as eight mishaps road mishaps take place on Gurugram’s roads daily.
In 2017, 481 lives were reportedly lost in accidents on the city’s roads. Commuters on two wheelers and pedestrians were the most vulnerable group of victims in road incidents.