A day after 10 folks have been killed in an accident on the Ahmedabad-Vadodara Expressway close to Nadiad after a Gentle Utility Automobile (LUV) crashed into the rear of a stationary oil tanker, the Kheda police has begun a probe to determine if the car had been used as a one-way pick-up cab or employed by a standard agent as unrelated passengers have been travelling to completely different areas.
The driving force of the oil tanker has been arrested for negligence and culpable murder not amounting to homicide, whereas the deceased driver of the LUV has additionally been booked underneath the identical sections.
Nadiad Rural Police Inspector Kirit Chaudhary instructed The Indian Express that the police is probing if the car was often pressed into an inter-city shuttle service by the proprietor or was employed by a standard individual because the passengers have been unrelated. “We’re investigating the character of the reserving of this car. Since all of the passengers in addition to the motive force have been killed, we’re but to determine the place the car picked the passengers from. Most of them are believed to have boarded from Vadodara and have been headed to Ahmedabad. We consider that some passengers have been additionally headed to Deesa. We are attempting to find the house owners to get extra particulars,” Chaudhary stated.
The FIR lodged at Nadiad rural police station in opposition to oil tanker driver Imityaz Ansari and LUV driver Surendra Singh Rawat states that their “negligence” led to the mishap that killed 10 individuals — eight of whom died on the spot, together with a five-year-old baby. “Ansari, who was the tanker driver, parked his car within the left lane of the Expressway with out switching on the parking lights or placing up a reflector or a hazard indication that might be seen from a distance. Though Ansari has claimed that his car had a technical breakdown, he didn’t try to contact the freeway authority or any company for emergency and assist. As a substitute of being current within the rear of his tanker, the motive force was sitting inside his cabin when the accident occurred,” the FIR states.
It added that Rawat had “tried to overhaul within the emergency lane” regardless of figuring out the hazards of doing so. “Regardless of figuring out that he would threat the lifetime of the passengers seated in his car, the LUV driver drove into the emergency lane at high pace to try overtaking different automobiles. He not solely misplaced his life but additionally precipitated the dying of 9 different individuals,” the FIR reads.
The police have ascertained the id of eight of the 9 passengers, who belonged to completely different cities and have been stated to be headed to Ahmedabad and a few to Deesa in Banaskantha.
The deceased embody Vadodara residents Neel Bhojwani and Jayshree Mistry, Amit Solanki of Valsad alongside together with his spouse Usha and son Daksh, Sahbuddin Ansari of Mumbai, Hitik Soni of Deesa, Yogesh Panchal of Ahmedabad in addition to an unidentified male.
In the meantime, an area court docket Thursday despatched Ansari to judicial custody.