Car racing down Kharadi road runs over two, injures four

PUNE: Two cars were racing each other down the road when the driver of one car, a Honda City, lost control and ran over a woman and her 11-year-old grandson, and then ploughed into four parked vehicles at Satav Vasti off Kharadi-Mundhwa Road around 8.30pm on Wednesday.
The deceased persons are Kantabai Sahebrao Sonune (61) and Nayan Ramesh Mokale. The Honda City’s driver, Saurabh Shashikant Jasud, 20, abandoned his car at the crash site, got into the other vehicle, a high performance sports car, and fled.

Senior inspector Rajendra Mulik of Chandannagar police station told TOI, “We arrested Jasud for his rash and negligent driving on Thursday evening.”

Eyewitness accounts said the driver of the Honda City veered to the wrong side of the road and ran over the two pedestrians, injured four others and hit four parked vehicles before halting.

All the injured persons were taken to a private hospital in Kharadi where the woman and the boy were pronounced dead. Mahendra Lokhande (41) of Satav Vasti, who was injured in the crash, lodged a police complaint.

Police bandobust was deployed on Thursday in the area on Thursday.