3 killed as speeding car hits bike, rolls over in east Delhi
NEW DELHI: Two sisters and a food delivery man were killed and at least three others injured after a speeding car rammed a motorbike and crashed into the iron railing of a road divider before flipping over four to five times on Vikas Marg in east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar early on Sunday, police said.
The two sisters, Jyoti (17) and Bharti (19), were among the seven occupants of the Wagon R car while the food delivery man, whose identity could not be ascertained till late evening, was riding the bike involved in the accident which took place at around 1 am.
Locals in the area said the sisters fell out of the rear windows of the car when the vehicle was flipping over on the road. More than 10ft of the railings on the central verge were broken due to the crash.
The driver, Krishna Rajak, 22, said he lost control of the car after a vehicle hit it. Police, however, said they have not found any CCTV footage that could establish the exact sequence of events. They suspect speeding caused the accident. A mechanical inspection of the car could provide its speed at the time of the crash, police said.
The family in the car was returning to Karkardooma after attending a relative’s wedding anniversary in outer Delhi’s Peeragarhi, when the accident took place on Vikas Marg, close to Walia Nursing Home. The seven family members included a couple, identified as Rajak and his wife Kajal Rajak, 20, and their two-year-old daughter, Anshika.
No cars stopped to help the accident victims, local residents said. This delayed the rescue and required medical attention of the victims, they said.