PUNE: An 18-year-old girl riding a scooter died after a speeding tanker grazed her vehicle, causing her to lose balance and fall off the two-wheeler on Kirloskar Pneumatic overbridge in Hadapsar around 10.45am on Tuesday.
The Hadapsar police identified the victim as Gargi Vijay Mishra of Vishwamitra Road in Pune Cantonment. “She was the first-year psychology student of the Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT) in Kothrud and was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident,” an officer of the Hadapsar police said, adding that her parents have donated her eyes.
Senior inspector Sunil Tambe of the Hadapsar police told TOI that Gargi was heading towards Hadapsar on her scooter when the tanker driver, Hussain Kamal Shaikh (55), from Kondhwa lost control over his vehicle and grazed her scooter from the rear left side. “The impact of the accident was such that Gargi fell off her scooter and suffered head injury. Investigations have revealed that Shaikh failed to switch on the indicator while coming on the left side of the road leading to the accident. He has been arrested on charges of rash driving and causing the death due to negligence, among other charges of the IPC and Motor Vehicles Act,” he said.
Vicky Dhavre (26), a passerby who rushed Gargi to a private hospital in Hadapsar, said he stopped a car and appealed its driver to help him take her to the hospital. “With the help of a woman, I moved the girl in the car. The woman then removed her scarf and sprinkled water on her face, following which she blinked her eyes. However, after reaching the hospital, she stopped responding,” he said.
At the hospital, Dhavre tried to reach her family members using her sim card, but to no avail. “I handed over the sim card to the police who contacted her mother,” he said.
Gargi’s father, Colonel Vijay Mishra, reached the hospital from Aurangabad after learning about the accident. He said, “Gargi had called me around 8am to inform me that she wanted to join the NCC.”
Colonel (retd) Mukesh Oza, a family friend of the Mishras, said, “Gargi, an IAS aspirant, had joined a coaching institute in Lucknow. She later shifted to Pune and took admission at MIT.” The Command Hospital in its post-mortem report certified the cause of her death due to “coma as a result of head injury due to blunt force trauma possible in a road traffic accident”.
The Hadapsar police identified the victim as Gargi Vijay Mishra of Vishwamitra Road in Pune Cantonment. “She was the first-year psychology student of the Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT) in Kothrud and was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident,” an officer of the Hadapsar police said, adding that her parents have donated her eyes.
Senior inspector Sunil Tambe of the Hadapsar police told TOI that Gargi was heading towards Hadapsar on her scooter when the tanker driver, Hussain Kamal Shaikh (55), from Kondhwa lost control over his vehicle and grazed her scooter from the rear left side. “The impact of the accident was such that Gargi fell off her scooter and suffered head injury. Investigations have revealed that Shaikh failed to switch on the indicator while coming on the left side of the road leading to the accident. He has been arrested on charges of rash driving and causing the death due to negligence, among other charges of the IPC and Motor Vehicles Act,” he said.
Vicky Dhavre (26), a passerby who rushed Gargi to a private hospital in Hadapsar, said he stopped a car and appealed its driver to help him take her to the hospital. “With the help of a woman, I moved the girl in the car. The woman then removed her scarf and sprinkled water on her face, following which she blinked her eyes. However, after reaching the hospital, she stopped responding,” he said.
At the hospital, Dhavre tried to reach her family members using her sim card, but to no avail. “I handed over the sim card to the police who contacted her mother,” he said.
Gargi’s father, Colonel Vijay Mishra, reached the hospital from Aurangabad after learning about the accident. He said, “Gargi had called me around 8am to inform me that she wanted to join the NCC.”
Colonel (retd) Mukesh Oza, a family friend of the Mishras, said, “Gargi, an IAS aspirant, had joined a coaching institute in Lucknow. She later shifted to Pune and took admission at MIT.” The Command Hospital in its post-mortem report certified the cause of her death due to “coma as a result of head injury due to blunt force trauma possible in a road traffic accident”.
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