Speed main reason behind mishaps: Cops

Nagpur: Senior PI Hemant Kharabe of Hingna police station stated that over speeding is the prime reason behind the two latest accidents, which claimed five lives including that of classical Marathi singer Gayatri Kanitkar, on National highway number 7. On Sunday, four persons were killed around a kilometres away from VCA Jamtha stadium on the same stretch of NH7 where the singer too was killed.
PI Kharabe, a former CBI officer, said that nothing apart from speed could be attributed to be the reasons behind the accident as the roads are good and other factors cannot be held responsible. “Motorists should be hauled up for rough and rash driving. In the latest incident where four people died, the car was so fast that it jumped over the divider after its tyre had burst. In the previous (Gayatri’s death) case, husband (Makrand) too seemed to have fallen asleep while the car was on top speed,” he said. The senior PI suggested traffic police to conduct a drive against rash driving using speed guns.
The post-mortems of four persons, Anand Pardhi, Chandrashekhar Chauhan, Vanshpati Patel and Ravi Rahangdale, were performed on Monday at Government medical college and hospital. The incident seemed to have inflicted irreparable loss to the shattered families of the deceased which was reflected in the mood of the kin who had assembled at the mortuary to receive the bodies. “Patel’s 25-year-old wife Usha is pregnant. He is already father of two girls, aged two and three years, who stays at Rewa in Madhya Pradesh. He had migrated to city around two months back to earn more for the family,” said a relative. Patel also had lost his father early and was eldest of five brothers.
Patel had joined his three other friends for a joyride in the ill-fated four-wheeler which belonged to Girish Ghodeswar. Pardhi had borrowed the car from Ghodeswar’s driver Rajesh Bopche for a spin and also refuel the car from a petrol pump near Dongargaon toll naka. It was on its way to Khapri after refuelling that the accident claimed four lives.