Joyride turns fatal for two teens

AHMEDABAD: Two boys, both 18, were killed when their car rammed into the rear of a trailer near Kargil Petrol Pump on SG Road on Friday morning. The boys were returning from a midnight birthday party where they had gone in a car purchased just 10 days ago. Their parents did not know that the boys had taken the vehicle which was still waiting for its registration number.
A-division traffic police station officials said Lakshman Rot, 35, a resident of Sabarmati and native of Bans wada, Rajasthan, works as a driver with Vinod Transport near the railway yard in Sabarmati. Rot said he had returned from Ankleshwar and was going towards Sabarmati at 2.15 am. As he was approaching Sola flyover, he sensed that something had hit the vehicle from behind as the entire vehicle shook and his rear tire got flat due to the impact.
“He got down with his cleaner and found that a car had hit the trailer at a great speed.After hitting the trailer, the car had turned turtle and had landed up near the road divider. Fearing backlash by the passers-by , Lakshman approached Sola police station,“ said a police official.
The victims were identified as Chinmay Kanani, 18, a resident of Mahalay Bungalows behind Kargil Petrol Pump, and Milan Sharma, 18, a resident of Nilmani Apartment, Gurukul Road. While Chinmay had re-appeared for class XII exam this year, Milan was a diploma enginee ring student at Kheralu. The duo had met at Chinmay's residence at around 11 pm to participate in a midnight birthday bash of a common friend.
Chinmay's father Jankar Kanani told media on Friday that his wife had been to Rajkot to attend a social function, while he had gone to sleep at around 11 pm when the boys were going out in the car. He had purchased the car involved in the accident 10 days ago and its registration number was yet to come.
“I did not know that Chin may had taken the car. I got to know about the accident around 3 am when I got a call from police station about the accident,“ he said, adding that Milan's father works with an auto company .
Police said that they have roped in forensic experts and are using CrashLab software to recreate the accident scene to ascertain the responsibility for the incident. They said that primarily it appeared that the car was going at over 100 kmph when the tragedy befell.
Role of cops unde scanner
As the city traffic police have constituted 14 traffic police stations -one each for a police division, generally comprising two to four police station areas, they are entrusted with investigation o road accident cases. However, in the past few incidents, it is always the local police that arrive on the spot earlier and try to maintain the crime spot -something also seen on Friday morning. The first accident that took place around 2.15 am could be registered only at 7.45 am when the staff reported on duty. Officials have pointed out that the stations simply don't have adequate staff as against the requirement of 44 sub-inspectors, currently there is only one subinspector for every police station that conducts investigations.