Woman drives over 12 in city, kills 1

MUMBAI: One person died and 11 others, including two women, were injured when a 60-year-old woman drove a Hyundai Getz (MH04-AK 6542) over workers taking a lunch break outside an industrial estate at Dadar on Monday afternoon. All the injured were standing near a pavement.
Senior police inspector Madhukar Sankhe said Inderjeet Dharamsingh Kaur, a resident of Juhu-Tara Road, was arrested for rash driving and causing hurt and death.She was taken to J J Hospital for tests to check if she had consumed alcohol, but tested negative. Sankhe said the woman, a housewife, appeared to be in a state of shock. "It does not appear that she has consumed liquor," he had said before the tests.
The Dadar police prevented the media from getting a glimpse of the woman. She was whisked out of the police station in a burqa. Kaur was on her way back to Juhu when the accident happened. According to witnesses, the driver seemed to have lost control.
Slum dwellers outside Madhani Estate on Senapati Bapat Marg said the silver-coloured car first rammed into a banyan tree, then revved up and dragged people along with it for a distance of 50 metres, hitting another car and a motorbike. Meera Kunjavane, who lives in a tarpaulin-covered hutment nearby, said, "My charpoy kept outside my hut was also dragged along. I do not know why she couldn’t stop the car. We were sitting outside our house and ran to save our lives."
Suresh Sharma, 35, a resident of Ghatkopar who worked in a garment workshop in Madhani Estate, was brought dead to KEM Hospital. Two of the injured were also unconscious when brought to the hospital. Senior assistant medical officer Dr Pravin Bangar of KEM hospital told TOI, "Two of them suffered head injuries. Although they are stable, we have kept them under observation. The others have suffered injuries ranging from fractures to lacerations, concussions and wounds."
Neelam Ghorpade, 35, was groaning in pain after doctors sutured her head. Her mother, Parvati Jadhav, said, "My daughter told me she had come down from her office to buy something to eat when all of a sudden a car hit her. She doesn’t remember what happened next.”