Two folks had been killed after a dashing chemical tanker rammed into their two-wheeler on the Nationwide Park Bridge on Mumbai’s Western Categorical Freeway on Sunday. The Kasturba Marg Police have arrested the tanker driver on prices of culpable murder not amounting to homicide.
In accordance with the police, Ajmal Ansari, 42, allegedly rammed his chemical tanker right into a Suzuki Burgman from behind on the southbound stretch of the Nationwide Park Bridge in Borivali (East) on Sunday afternoon.
Household buddies and Bhayander East residents, Rahul Krishnan, 25, and Jaya Pandey, 24, had been going to purchase garments for Pandey’s pal when their two-wheeler was hit and sustained grievous head accidents. Krishnan and Pandey labored with personal corporations.
Minal Shinde, Sub-inspector of Police, stated they didn’t discover any helmets on the spot. Motorists current on the accident spot stopped an ambulance, which was passing by, and rushed the 2 to Orbit Hospital, Mira Street, the place they had been declared lifeless earlier than admission. Later, the our bodies had been shifted to Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Common Hospital, Bhayander for postmortem examination.
The chemical tanker driver Ansari, a resident of Vashi Naka, Chembur, who escaped from the accident spot fearing folks would beat him, later reached Kasturba Marg Police Station together with the car proprietor and surrendered. The police have additionally seized the tanker discovered on the place of the accident, Shinde stated.
“There is no such thing as a eyewitness to the incident and the CCTV that captured the accident is positioned far, therefore it’s not clear how precisely the accident occurred. However, when each the autos had been inspected we noticed the entrance bumper of the tanker and rear facet of the two-wheeler broken as a result of impression. Due to this fact, we suspect the tanker dashed the two-wheeler from behind and thus, Ansari was arrested underneath sections 279 (rash and negligent driving) and 304 (culpable murder not amounting to homicide) of the Indian Penal Code,” stated Shinde.
The police have handed over their our bodies to their households.