Rickshaw rams into car on Mangal Pandey Road, one dies

Vadodara: An autorickshaw rammed into a car on Mangal Pandey Road in the city on Tuesday morning, leaving the auto driver dead, and his woman passenger seriously injured.
According to police, rickshaw driver Bashir Khan Pathan was driving towards VUDA circle on VIP Road from Sama when he rammed into a car which was taking a U-turn. However, as the road was slippery, Pathan probably couldn’t stop the auto immediately and rammed on the car’s rear side. It then skidded to the other lane and suffered a head-on collision with an SUV that was coming from the VUDA circle.
Meanwhile, the woman passenger in Pathan’s auto was flung out on the road. Eye-witnesses told the police that she luckily escaped coming under the SUV by a few inches only. Pathan, on the other hand, suffered grievous injuries and was taken to the SSG Hospital where he succumbed during treatment.
A case of rash driving was registered at Sama police station. Cops said that they are probing the case based on CCTV camera footage of a nearby shop and eye-witnesses accounts.