Pune News: Drunk Student Rams Audi Into BRTS Railing Near Pimple Saudagar, Injures Passengers Travelling In AutoÂ
Pune News: Drunk Student Rams Audi Into BRTS Railing Near Pimple Saudagar, Injures Passengers Travelling In AutoÂ
Pune: A 21-year-old business administration student, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, drove an Audi into the railing and a pole on the Aundh-Ravet BRTS corridor near Jagtap Dairy around 12:30 am on Friday.
The impact resulted in one of the car’s wheels detaching and hitting an autorickshaw, causing it to overturn and injuring four daily-wage workers inside.Â
Pune – Another accident in Pune near jagtap dairy. Allegedly guy was driving fast and slammed into barriers hard. Front weel flew into another lane and hit autorickshaw. #Pune #audi #accident #PimpriChinchwad #crash #wakad #pimplesaudagar #hinjewadi pic.twitter.com/18Ww432iPY
— Pune Pulse (@pulse_pune) June 14, 2024
Pimpri Chinchwad’s deputy commissioner of police, Bapu Bangar, reported that the student, son of an IT professional, and his two friends who were in the car also sustained minor injuries. The three were returning home to Pimple Saudagar after celebrating the student’s birthday on June 13 at a friend’s house.
The police arrested the student under sections 279 (rash and negligent driving), 337, and 338 (causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others) of the Indian Penal Code, sections 184 (driving dangerously) and 185 (drunk driving) of the Motor Vehicle Act, and sections of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.
Senior inspector Nivrutti Kolhatkar from Wakad police station said that the student was produced before a court and remanded to judicial custody for 14 days.
The injured daily-wage workers were identified as Tanaji Patil (40), Vaibhav Chaturbhuj (24), Buland Kumar (19), and Minto Kumar (20), all residents of Marunji in Hinjewadi. They received preliminary treatment at a hospital and were subsequently discharged. Raju Dhakane, an autorickshaw driver who witnessed the accident, informed the police that the car first hit the barricades and then the streetlight pole, which collapsed upon impact.
Kolhatkar added that police took the car driver to a hospital in Aundh, where tests confirmed that the student was drunk.
