Man run over by truck while helping friend

Ahmedabad: A man who was going to help his friend, whose motorcycle had run out of fuel on the Bhavnagar-Vataman highway near Dholka, was struck and killed by a speeding truck on Tuesday evening. Paresh Makwana, 21, a resident of Moti Boru village in Dholka taluka of Ahmedabad, in his FIR with Koth police said he works at a petrol pump and was going to work on Tuesday evening when his motorcycle ran out of fuel. Makwana phoned his friend, Vijay Gohil, asking for help. Gohil set off on his motorcycle. They had decided they would push Makwana’s motorcycle to his workplace using Gohil’s motorcycle. As Gohil began pushing Makwana’s motorcycle, a speeding truck coming from the direction of Bhavnagar hit Gohil and ran over him. Gohil died on the spot. His body was taken to the Dholka community health centre for a postmortem. Makwana then called the police control room. Koth police registered a complaint of causing death by negligent driving against an unknown driver and began an investigation. Makwana said the truck had a West Bengal registration number. tnn