New Delhi, July 22: Four persons were killed in an accident on NH-8 near Manesar around 1.30 am on Tuesday. The deceased — Eshwar Chand Gupta, his son Ankit Gupta, Kapil Kumar Aggarwal and Gupta’s driver — were returning to Delhi from Jaipur in Gupta’s Santro car.
According to the police, a speeding cement dumper hit Gupta’s car from behind. The impact was so forceful that the car shot forward and hit another truck in front. As it was crushed between the dumper and the truck, its petrol tank exploded and caught fire, the police said.
Kapil, 21, a final year engineering student of BMIT, Sonepat, was a friend of Ankit, 21, also an engineering student at a college in Sitapur near Jaipur.
He had accompanied Ankit for his end of semester examination on July 20.
“Kapil did not even inform us that he was going with Ankit and his father. He informed his mother only after he reached Jaipur. He said he would return with the family after the examination,” Khem Chand, Kapil’s father, said.
Khem Chand, who runs a kirana store, said his son had recently returned home for vacations after his end of semester examination.
The impact of the accident and the explosion left the car a mangled heap of metal. Its roof had to be cut open to remove the bodies.
According to the investigating officer, Manesar police station, Narender Sangwan, the four occupants of the car must have died instantly when the cement dumper rammed into the car.
“The two persons sitting in the rear seat had severe head injuries, which could have caused instant death. Those in front seats had broken ribs, which could have resulted in their death even before the petrol tank exploded,” the officer said.
The driver of the cement dumper is absconding. The police have registered a case under Sections 279, 304-A, 427 of the IPC against the dumper driver on the complaint of the truck driver whose truck was also damaged in the accident.
–Agencies