Two engineering students killed in midnight crash
28 Jun 2014 4:25 AM IST
Two engineering students were killed while five others sustained critical injuries when an over-speeding WagonR car rammed into a divider hitting an oncoming brand new Swift Dzire at Noida Link road on late Wednesday night.
The incident took place at around 11.15 pm when six friends, in their early twenties, were returning to east Delhi from a party in Noida. The occupants of the white coloured WagonR car have been identified as Vishal, Ujjwal Tyagi, Shubham, Sagar, Samarth and Neeraj. All six were studying engineering from a private college. Shubham is a resident of Anand Vihar, Sagar at Pitampura and the rest were residents of Arya Nagar Apartment at Patparganj.
They were on the Noida Link Road when the driver of the car, Samarth, lost control and rammed into the divider. ‘The impact of the collision was such that the car jumped in the air, turtled and landed upside down on the other side of the road. Meanwhile, Siddharth Agnihotri was going to Noida with his family, wife Kawaljeet Kaur and their son from a gurudwara in their brand new Swift Dzire. Their car was coming from the other side of the carriageway,’ Ajay Kumar, deputy commissioner of police (east) said.
Agnihotri applied emergency brakes after he saw the WagonR hit the divider and tumbling to his lane but he could not avert the collision and the WagonR dashed into the front side of his car, damaging the bonnet and the headlight. The accident also led to traffic snarls on both sides of the roads and one of the passers-by called the police. In the mean time, few passers-by tried to rescue the occupants stuck in both the cars.
‘At around 11.32 pm, a call was received and a team was rushed to the spot. All the injured persons were taken to Lal Bahadur Shashtri (LBS) hospital and Jeeven Anmol respectively. Out of the five persons who were taken to LBS hospital, doctors pronounced Vishal and Ujjwal dead on arrival. The remaining three received critical injuries and are still undergoing treatment. The couple and their child were rushed to Jeevan Anmol hospital and have sustained serious head injuries. They are under observation,’ a police official said.
A case under Sections 279, 337, 304A of the Indian Penal Code have been registered at Pandav Nagar police station against Samarth.
The incident took place at around 11.15 pm when six friends, in their early twenties, were returning to east Delhi from a party in Noida. The occupants of the white coloured WagonR car have been identified as Vishal, Ujjwal Tyagi, Shubham, Sagar, Samarth and Neeraj. All six were studying engineering from a private college. Shubham is a resident of Anand Vihar, Sagar at Pitampura and the rest were residents of Arya Nagar Apartment at Patparganj.
They were on the Noida Link Road when the driver of the car, Samarth, lost control and rammed into the divider. ‘The impact of the collision was such that the car jumped in the air, turtled and landed upside down on the other side of the road. Meanwhile, Siddharth Agnihotri was going to Noida with his family, wife Kawaljeet Kaur and their son from a gurudwara in their brand new Swift Dzire. Their car was coming from the other side of the carriageway,’ Ajay Kumar, deputy commissioner of police (east) said.
Agnihotri applied emergency brakes after he saw the WagonR hit the divider and tumbling to his lane but he could not avert the collision and the WagonR dashed into the front side of his car, damaging the bonnet and the headlight. The accident also led to traffic snarls on both sides of the roads and one of the passers-by called the police. In the mean time, few passers-by tried to rescue the occupants stuck in both the cars.
‘At around 11.32 pm, a call was received and a team was rushed to the spot. All the injured persons were taken to Lal Bahadur Shashtri (LBS) hospital and Jeeven Anmol respectively. Out of the five persons who were taken to LBS hospital, doctors pronounced Vishal and Ujjwal dead on arrival. The remaining three received critical injuries and are still undergoing treatment. The couple and their child were rushed to Jeevan Anmol hospital and have sustained serious head injuries. They are under observation,’ a police official said.
A case under Sections 279, 337, 304A of the Indian Penal Code have been registered at Pandav Nagar police station against Samarth.
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