Two youths were killed on the spot after a speeding Bolero pickup vehicle rammed their motorcycle and fled the scene in a hit-and-run incident under the Hingna police station limits on Tuesday.
The fatal accident occurred around 4.45 pm on January 20 near the Outer Ring Road bridge close to Bombay Furniture on the Monda–Hingna Road. The victims, Suraj Sheshnath Bharti (21) and Karan Tengar Shah (19), both residents of Rajiv Nagar, were travelling on a Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle (MH-40 CZ-1560).
According to police, the Mahindra Bolero pickup (MH-40 CM-2786), which was transporting chickens, was being driven at high speed in a rash and negligent manner. The vehicle hit the motorcycle head-on, throwing both riders onto the road and causing critical injuries. The driver abandoned the victims and fled the spot immediately after the crash.
Friends rushed the injured youths to the Hingna Rural Hospital, where doctors declared both dead on arrival.
Following a complaint by Chandrajit Kumar alias Rudra Kamal Yadav (18), Hingna police registered a case against the Bolero driver under Sections 281 and 106(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with Sections 134, 174, and 184 of the Motor Vehicles Act.
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