Car travelling at high speed overturns, one dead, two injured

HYDERABAD: In a major road accident involving three students of Sultan Ul Uloom Education Society, Banjara Hills road no 3, a 20-year-old boy died after their I-20 car, which was over speeding over turned near Green mosque on Banjara Hills on Tuesday afternoon. The two other inmates of the car, escaped with injuries.

Banjara Hills police said that

Fasahat

Ali,20, a resident of Jubilee Hills, and two of his friends- Danish

Javed

and Wahid- were travelling in an I-20 car at the time of mishap. Fasahat died on the spot, while Javed who was sitting next to him suffered fracture to his right hand and Wahid, who was on the rearseat, escaped with minor injuries. The incident created severe traffic jam on Banjara Hills road 1,2,3 and other connecting roads besides Srinagar colony road.

As the car was driven at a high speed, the driver lost his control over the vehicle while he was coming from

Harley Davidson

showroom towards Green mosque. The car at a high speed first hit the road divider and immediately it over turned and turtle two or three times before coming to a halt.

The incident happened opposite to Indian Terrain showroom, and Fasahat who was on the wheel, lost control while negotiating the declivity where there is slight turn at this juncture. To the sheer luck of motorists travelling in a Honda City on the other side of the road, the driver’s presence of mind to slightly veering his car on noticing the out of control I-20 coming on to the other side saved them. Not just Honda City car, even a two-wheeler rider on Honda Activa, coming on the rear side, was lucky enough as he was just following Honda car.

The incident happened exactly at 1.27 pm, as the students were on their way to their college. "The three friends, had their lunch at All Seasons restaurant, some where near Green mosque. After lunch, they took the route via

Mountain Bakery

and went straight and then took a U-turn to reach their college. But enroute the mishap took place", Banjara Hills Sub-Inspector

Harish Reddy

told TOI.

Immediately, the on lookers came to the rescue of the accident victims and Fasahat was found dead on the spot. The injured Javed was rushed to the Yashoda hospital, Somajiguda, where he was treated and later discharged. Fasahat and Wahid are second year Engineering students in Muffakham Jah Engineering College and Javed was doing 2nd year Bachelor of Business Administration. Police said that they are not in touch with Wahid, as he lost his mobile phone during the accident and his phone is switched off.

However, he is safe and left the accident location, shifting his severely injured friend Javed to hospital. The I-20 car belongs to Fasahat’s family. The deadbody of the deceased was shifted to

Osmania General Hospital

(OGH) and post mortem is expected to be done on Wednesday.