Bike mishap: Woman engineer, Enfield staff killed in Gurugram
The victims were returning from a late night party & over-speeding
GURUGRAM: A 30-yearold marketing executive, and a female employee at a multinational corporation in Gurgaon, died late Monday night after the Bullet bike they were travelling on collided with a jersey barrier on the city’s Golf Course Road. Police suspect the vehicle, which was being driven by the marketing executive, was travelling at high speed, which could have caused the accident.
According to police, the incident occurred at the Genpact junction, around 1 am on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, on the side of the carriageway used by vehicles travelling towards Sector 56.
The deceased have been identified as Kevin Martin, who hailed from Mumbai and was working as a marketing executive at Royal Enfield’s head office in Gurgaon’s Sector 32, and Anvita Kant, a 27-year-old engineer who hailed from Faridabad and had recently secured employment at Google, where she had been working for the past month. She was residing in a PG accommodation in DLF5, said police.
GURUGRAM: A female engineer working with Google along with her male friend who was a marketing executive with Royal Enfield were killed after their bike crashed into a divider at the Genpact Chowk on the Golf Course road. The deceased have been identified as Anvita Kant and Kevin Martin. The fatal accident occurred in the wee hours of Tuesday when the duo was returning from a late night party.
The severity of the crash can be gauged from the fact that some parts of the Royal Enfield Bullet bike in which they were travelling were completely crushed. While Kevin who is believed to be driving the bike died on the spot, Anvita succumbed while being taken to the hospital. According to Gurugram Police, the main cause of the fatal accident is over-speeding. The investigators mention that at the time of the crash, the bike was being driven at a speed of 150-kilometre per hour. At the Genpact Chowk, the rider eventually lost control and hit the barricade. Such was the impact of the crash that while Kevin fell at a distance of 25 feet, Anvita fell 50-feet away.
The Gurugram police has begun investigations and sent the bodies for postmortem. The police have also taken possession of the bike on which the victims were travelling. Sources in the Gurugram police said even though Anvita wished to be dropped to her home in Faridabad, Kevin planned to go for a long drive.
Belonging to Sector-21 in Faridabad, Anvita was the daughter of a doctor and had just got hired as an engineer with Google that has its India head office in Gurugram. She had got the job in the multinational company just a month ago. Her friend Kevin belonged to Mumbai and had been residing in Delhi. He had been working as a marketing executive in the Royal Enfield company that has its main office at Sector-32.
The revamping of Golf Course road and Cyber Greens area may have removed the hurdles faced by the commuters but now there is a challenge of over-speeding vehicles. Considered as posh areas of the city, these major roads which have become signal-free have now become the favourite spot for stunt bikers and bikes being used for racing. The challenge of bikes being driven at a fast speed is not a new phenomenon. Earlier when the construction activities were going on at Golf Course road and Cyber Greens, these complaints were received from Gurugramfaridabad road.
Ironically, the brazen violation of traffic rules is being reported when in 2017, the district police set a record of imposing a fine on over seven lakh vehicles and collecting Rs 14 crore in fine. Last year, 481 people lost their lives due to accidents in the city. “The big problem is because you are not acting against one individual, you are encouraging others to follow. Most of the under-age drivers are now indulging in such dangerous activities,” said Rachna Shukla, a city resident.