Two youths died on the spot when their motorcycle rammed into a truck carrying construction rods protruding from the rear end in east Delhi’s Nand Nagri area on Tuesday morning.
Incidentally both the deceased identified as two friends were named Zubair aged 18 and 21. They were heading towards Chaar-Khamba point on Wazirpur Road when they met with the fatal accident around 5.40 am. The truck driver abandoned the truck and fled the spot by the time police reached there, said a police official.
He further said, the youths were rushed to a nearby hospital where they were declared brought dead. The truck, along with the TMT construction rods, was impounded by the police.
“The police are looking for the errant driver and also trying to track the owner of the transport
agency to which the truck belonged. They will both be charged under various provisions of the law,” the official added.
Records of Delhi Police reveal that as many as 20 such accidents were reported in the previous year.
“This is a case of severe negligence and often drivers and transporters in such cases are booked for dangerous driving (with life threat to public) under relevant sections on the Motor Vehicles Act. At times they are booked under section 279 (rash driving) of IPC,” said Muktesh Chander, Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic).
Transporters have violated guidelines regarding carriage of industrial goods time and again and the police have failed to control the menace, said a source in Delhi Traffic Police.
According to the source, there are customised containers for industrial products like chimneys and power plant equipment. But transporters often cut cost in this regard and go for general trucks, which are often not sufficient to take the load.
Transporters need to avail bigger trucks for transporting construction rods. The rules laid down by the authorities explicitly mention that no part of the materials carried should exceed the truck’s length. But to illicitly increase their margin in the business, the transporters go for smaller trucks which save money putting into risk several lives on the roads. Many a time, they force the drivers to go with construction rods exceeding the trucks length.
Even at the city borders, they reportedly have arrangements with police officials who let them pass and the vigilance branch of Delhi Police often comes across such complaints. In fact, in the past year the department took action against many cops for such involvements.
Incidentally both the deceased identified as two friends were named Zubair aged 18 and 21. They were heading towards Chaar-Khamba point on Wazirpur Road when they met with the fatal accident around 5.40 am. The truck driver abandoned the truck and fled the spot by the time police reached there, said a police official.
He further said, the youths were rushed to a nearby hospital where they were declared brought dead. The truck, along with the TMT construction rods, was impounded by the police.
“The police are looking for the errant driver and also trying to track the owner of the transport
agency to which the truck belonged. They will both be charged under various provisions of the law,” the official added.
Records of Delhi Police reveal that as many as 20 such accidents were reported in the previous year.
“This is a case of severe negligence and often drivers and transporters in such cases are booked for dangerous driving (with life threat to public) under relevant sections on the Motor Vehicles Act. At times they are booked under section 279 (rash driving) of IPC,” said Muktesh Chander, Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic).
Transporters have violated guidelines regarding carriage of industrial goods time and again and the police have failed to control the menace, said a source in Delhi Traffic Police.
According to the source, there are customised containers for industrial products like chimneys and power plant equipment. But transporters often cut cost in this regard and go for general trucks, which are often not sufficient to take the load.
Transporters need to avail bigger trucks for transporting construction rods. The rules laid down by the authorities explicitly mention that no part of the materials carried should exceed the truck’s length. But to illicitly increase their margin in the business, the transporters go for smaller trucks which save money putting into risk several lives on the roads. Many a time, they force the drivers to go with construction rods exceeding the trucks length.
Even at the city borders, they reportedly have arrangements with police officials who let them pass and the vigilance branch of Delhi Police often comes across such complaints. In fact, in the past year the department took action against many cops for such involvements.