Uttarakhand cop crossing road hit by vehicle at Shankar Chowk, dies

Gurgaon: In a hit-and-run case, a 35-year-old policeman from Uttarakhand died after being knocked down by a vehicle at Shankar Chowk on the Gurgaon-Delhi expressway late on Friday night.
The cop, who had come to Gurgaon for some work, was crossing the road when the accident occurred.
Around 11.30pm on Friday, constable Narender Singh Negi and his friend Deepak were headed towards Delhi in a Honda City, police said. They took the road under the Shankar Chowk flyover, instead of the main carriageway but stopped the car. Narender stepped out and was hit by a vehicle while he tried to cross the road.
The impact was such that the constable was flung 10 feet into the air and landed on his neck at a distance. A passerby dialled 100 and called for an ambulance too. Narender was rushed to a private hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
Satbir Singh, the SHO of Udyog Vihar police station, said a team of cops rushed to the accident spot soon after being alerted by the police control room.
“We found a man in uniform lying on the road, oozing blood. We rushed him to the hospital, but it was too late. He had died soon after the accident,” the SHO added.
Originally from Dehradun, Narender was posted in Rishikesh. However, a question remains unanswered — why did the cop attempt to cross the road at that hour of the night? Deepak, the police said, is too shocked to give a statement.
“We have already informed the police headquarters in Uttarakhand about the accident. We had searched Narender’s pocket and found his identity card. His body has been kept at the district mortuary. Initial investigation has revealed that a heavy vehicle was involved in the accident. Anyway, we are trying to track down the vehicle that sped away after the accident,” the Udyog Vihar SHO said.
A case was registered under sections 279 (rash and negligent driving) and 304A (death by negligence) of the IPC against unidentified persons.
Between January and May this year, as many as 315 cases of road accidents were reported in Gurgaon. And some 153 people lost their lives in 150 road accidents during the period, of which 42 were pedestrians.
On the other hand, around 200 people sustained injuries in these road accidents, of which 37 were pedestrians.