A girl was killed and at the least 4 folks injured after a drunk driver crashed his automobile in western India’s Vadodara metropolis.
The incident occurred within the early hours of Friday close to a busy intersection within the metropolis’s Karelibaug space in Gujarat state. In line with eyewitnesses and surveillance footage, a rushing black automobile misplaced management and crashed right into a scooter and hit a number of folks.
Hemaliben Patel was killed immediately whereas two women aged 10 and 12, a 35-year-old lady and a 40-year-old man have been left critically injured, NDTV reported.
Indian social media erupted in outrage after a video of the accident and the driving force’s response appeared on-line.
Within the video, a younger man, later recognized as Meet Chauhan, exits the wrecked automobile and says in Hindi: “I didn’t do something, he was driving the automobile.”
That’s when the driving force, recognized as legislation pupil Rakshit Chaurasia, steps out and shouts: “One other spherical, one other spherical!”
Mr Chaurasia was subsequently arrested. “A four-wheeler rammed right into a two-wheeler and one lady died within the accident. The accused driver has been caught,” joint commissioner of police Leena Patil advised the press. “It is a case of drunk driving.”
Within the video, Mr Chaurasia seems incoherent and is caught by bystanders.
“A automobile was shifting from Sangam to Muktananad crossroad. It met with an accident whereas overspeeding. Police reached the spot and arrested one accused, Rakshit Ravish Chaurasia. Search to arrest the opposite accused, Meet Chauhan, is underway,” deputy police commissioner Panna Momaya advised the press. “The automobile belonged to his pal Meet Chauhan, who was sitting within the co-driver’s seat when Chaurasia rammed it into some two-wheelers at full velocity whereas going in direction of Muktanand circle.”
Talking to reporters outdoors the native police station, Mr Chaurasia denied being inebriated and claimed his airbag had deployed unexpectedly and induced the accident.
“The airbag deployed out of the blue and I couldn’t see something forward. It was additionally tough to regulate the automobile because it was computerized,” he mentioned, in response to Occasions Now, including that two or three scooters out of the blue got here into his path.
A number of eyewitnesses advised native media that the rushing automobile took a pointy flip earlier than it hit a scooter.
Mr Chaurasia claimed he didn’t know the crash had resulted in a loss of life.
A preliminary investigation discovered that Mr Chaurasia was inebriated in addition to medication, police mentioned, including that they’d be sending his blood samples for drug checks.
