2 cyclists killed in separate accidents

nNEW DELHI: Two persons travelling by bicycles were killed in separate accidents in Delhi on Wednesday. One of the victims was a 23-year-old woman riding pillion behind her husband in north Delhi’s Majnu Ka Tilla and the other was a 51-year-old man cycling home in West Delhi.

While the Delhi traffic Police are yet to analyse the number of bicyclists killed in road accidents this year or 2019, at least 56 people riding bicycles were killed in accidents in the national capital in 2018, as per data compiled by the ministry of road transport and highways.

WOMAN RIDING PILLION ON CYCLE

Identified by her first name, Baby, the 23-year-old woman, lived with her husband in Ghaziabad and worked as a mason.

Late Wednesday afternoon, the couple was returning from Sadar Bazar home when their bicycle was hit by a truck near Majnu Ka Tilla on Outer Ring Road. In his police complaint, Kumar said the truck was being driven rashly, which led to his wife’s death.

“My wife and the bicycle got caught in the truck’s front wheel and were dragged for a distance,” Kumar told police.

The truck driver, 51-year-old Sabir, stopped the vehicle and came to check on the victim, but she was declared dead on arrival at the Sushrut Trauma Centre.

HIT AND RUN

The exact timing of the other mishap remains unclear, but it took place under the Mayapuri Metro station on Wednesday while the 51-year-old man, Harcharan, was riding back home to a slum in Kirti Nagar.

The police had received a call from a passerby Hemant Kumar who saw Harcharan, a labour worker, injured on the road. “According to an eyewitness, the offending vehicle was an orange bus plying on route number 73,” said Deepak Purohit, DCP (west).