Gurgaon: A Scorpio dashing down the incorrect lane of Golf Course Road smashed right into a cab taking an IndiGo pilot to the airport inside Sikanderpur underpass early on Sunday, leaving her severely injured and the driver and guard within the cab’s entrance seats lifeless.
The Sikanderpur underpass is a curving one and police mentioned the cab’s driver would have had no time to react to the Scorpio at the incorrect lane as he would not have noticed the SUV come from a distance. The cab had already travelled 500 metres within the 1.2km-long underpass and used to be at the curving street when the Scorpio hit it head-on around five.30am.
The collision would were at an overly high speed because there is little traffic at that hour and Golf Course Road has been made over and designed as an expressway. The bonnets of both the Scorpio and the cab, a Swift Dzire, were utterly mangled. Police mentioned the air luggage of both vehicles had opened but the driver and guard within the cab died at the spot in spite of that.
The Scorpio, which used to be coming from the Cyber City facet and will have to were at the different lane, has a VIP number and bore a pretend Member of Parliament decal, police mentioned. A hunt is on for the driver, who escaped from the scene. The automobile has a Delhi number and is registered within the title of Praveen Kumar, police mentioned.
The pilot, Suvarna Sripalli Gayatri (30) used to be to record for her flight and began early from her area in Sector 61 on Golf Course Road (Extension) within the office cab. She used to be seated within the rear. The cab reached Golf Course Road thru Rajesh Pilot Marg and proceeded to go into Sikanderpur underpass near Bristol Chowk because it headed for the expressway from where it used to be to take a proper turn for the airport.
Gayatri used to be taken via a police patrol crew that used to be alerted via passersby to Medanta medical institution. She is admitted to the medical institution’s in depth care. The medical institution did not give out any information at the nature of her accidents.
The cab , Vinod Yadav, used to be a resident of Bijnor in UP. The guard travelling with the pilot, Kishore Yadav, used to be from Bareilly. “The Scorpio driver is absconding. We’re looking to nab him,” mentioned DLF 1 police station SHO Kailash Bedi, adding that while the injured pilot used to be taken to Medanta, the bodies of the deceased were taken to Civil Hospital.
ACP (traffic) Heera Singh admitted using down the incorrect facet and dashing are critical problems on Gurgaon’s streets. “The automobile used to be coming near at speed from the incorrect facet,” mentioned Singh, adding police would conduct a traffic laws enforcement force on Monday on Golf Course Road. He mentioned other people often take a incorrect turn beneath the flyover or even in the middle of the street.
“We check out our best possible to put into effect traffic laws, but deploying manpower 24x7 is not imaginable,” mentioned Singh, adding with lesser traffic on weekend, commuters have a tendency to force down the incorrect facet and take quick cuts more often, endangering lives
In a statement, IndiGo mentioned, “Airline workforce are present on the medical institution and in touch with the family of the injured workforce member. The accident is being investigated via police. The first indications are the accident used to be brought about via reckless using via the other automobile.”
In December 2017, a biker had died in an accident at Sikanderpur underpass after being hit via a automobile. It used to be the primary such accident within the underpass near Cyber City that used to be inaugurated in March 2017 to cut back traffic congestion at the busy intersection and support connectivity with the airport.
The Sikanderpur underpass is a curving one and police mentioned the cab’s driver would have had no time to react to the Scorpio at the incorrect lane as he would not have noticed the SUV come from a distance. The cab had already travelled 500 metres within the 1.2km-long underpass and used to be at the curving street when the Scorpio hit it head-on around five.30am.
The collision would were at an overly high speed because there is little traffic at that hour and Golf Course Road has been made over and designed as an expressway. The bonnets of both the Scorpio and the cab, a Swift Dzire, were utterly mangled. Police mentioned the air luggage of both vehicles had opened but the driver and guard within the cab died at the spot in spite of that.
The Scorpio, which used to be coming from the Cyber City facet and will have to were at the different lane, has a VIP number and bore a pretend Member of Parliament decal, police mentioned. A hunt is on for the driver, who escaped from the scene. The automobile has a Delhi number and is registered within the title of Praveen Kumar, police mentioned.
The pilot, Suvarna Sripalli Gayatri (30) used to be to record for her flight and began early from her area in Sector 61 on Golf Course Road (Extension) within the office cab. She used to be seated within the rear. The cab reached Golf Course Road thru Rajesh Pilot Marg and proceeded to go into Sikanderpur underpass near Bristol Chowk because it headed for the expressway from where it used to be to take a proper turn for the airport.
Gayatri used to be taken via a police patrol crew that used to be alerted via passersby to Medanta medical institution. She is admitted to the medical institution’s in depth care. The medical institution did not give out any information at the nature of her accidents.
The cab , Vinod Yadav, used to be a resident of Bijnor in UP. The guard travelling with the pilot, Kishore Yadav, used to be from Bareilly. “The Scorpio driver is absconding. We’re looking to nab him,” mentioned DLF 1 police station SHO Kailash Bedi, adding that while the injured pilot used to be taken to Medanta, the bodies of the deceased were taken to Civil Hospital.
ACP (traffic) Heera Singh admitted using down the incorrect facet and dashing are critical problems on Gurgaon’s streets. “The automobile used to be coming near at speed from the incorrect facet,” mentioned Singh, adding police would conduct a traffic laws enforcement force on Monday on Golf Course Road. He mentioned other people often take a incorrect turn beneath the flyover or even in the middle of the street.
“We check out our best possible to put into effect traffic laws, but deploying manpower 24x7 is not imaginable,” mentioned Singh, adding with lesser traffic on weekend, commuters have a tendency to force down the incorrect facet and take quick cuts more often, endangering lives
In a statement, IndiGo mentioned, “Airline workforce are present on the medical institution and in touch with the family of the injured workforce member. The accident is being investigated via police. The first indications are the accident used to be brought about via reckless using via the other automobile.”
In December 2017, a biker had died in an accident at Sikanderpur underpass after being hit via a automobile. It used to be the primary such accident within the underpass near Cyber City that used to be inaugurated in March 2017 to cut back traffic congestion at the busy intersection and support connectivity with the airport.
Wrong-side driver hits cab head-on, leaves 2 dead, young Indigo pilot battling for life
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