Ahmedabad: Scooter rider dies after being hit by car on SG Road

AHMEDABAD: Rutvij Patel, 24, from the Sola area of the city died on Sunday afternoon after his scooter was hit by a speeding car in front of Rajpath Club in Bodakdev on SG Road.
The accident took place at around 1.30pm on Sunday. Patel died after brief treatment at Sola civil hospital, said officers of SG-2 division traffic police who registered a case of negligent driving causing death on a complaint filed by Patel’s relative Kamal Patel.The car driver remains unidentified.

A police officer said that the car driver, aged around 55, who also suffered severe injuries in the accident, was taken out from the damaged car by locals and rushed to a nearby private hospital in a 108 ambulance.

“After the car hit Patel, the driver got stuck inside the damaged car by the intensity of the collision. First the car hit Patel and then rammed into a road divider,’ said an officer.
According to primary investigation, the car driver lost control over steering as his brakes failed and he could not reduce the speed which caused the fatal accident. An FSL team was also called to the accident spot which will submit detailed inquiry report to SG-2 division traffic police.
Police have also recovered CCTV footage of the accident which shows that the car was moving at high speed.