Driver held for crashing SUV into taxi in Gurugram underpass

Gurugram: The driver of a speeding SUV that allegedly rammed into a cab on Golf Course road, killing two persons and critically injuring a private airline woman pilot heading to the airport, has been arrested, police said on Tuesday. Mohammad Sazid, who had escaped after the accident on Sunday, was arrested on Monday evening.

Mohammad Sazid was arrested on Monday evening after he was discharged from a hospital where he had gone for treatment following the accident," said Ravinder Kumar, spokesperson of Gurugram police.

Two of his friends were also inside the SUV at the time of the accident and suffered minor injuries. They were returning from Rishikesh and mistakenly entered the underpass from the wrong side of the 16-lane Golf Course road on Sunday morning, Kumar said. There was yet another addition in the series of deadly accidents that has gripped Gurugram over the recent days when a Mahindra Scorpio coming from a wrong side crashed with a fast moving Maruti Swift car on Sunday.

The freak accident occured at the Bristol Chowk underpass between 5:30 am and 6 am on Sunday. The underpass serves as a link between DLF Phase-1 and Cyber green area. While two people that is the driver and the security guard died, another victim a young woman pilot in a private airline named Suvarna Sripalli Gayatri received severe injuries and was admitted to a private hospital. A resident of Sector-61 at Golf Course Extension road, Suvarna was going to Indira Gandhi International Airport to report for duty when she along with other employees met with the accident.