Exec dies as SUV rams his car in Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway hit & run

GURGAON: A manager of a private company died after his Alto was hit by an SUV on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway near Farrukhnagar on Wednesday. Police said Naresh Kumar was leaving for home in Delhi's Mundhela Khurd from Pataudi after his work around 5pm, when the accident happened.
He was 4 km from the Farrukhnagar toll at the time of incident, apolice officer said, adding that the accused fled the spot leaving his SUV.
Police said Naresh managed to call his brother Mukesh Vats after the accident but could not come out of the vehicle as he had suffered severe injuries. Only when Mukesh reached the spot after half an hour, he was rushed to SGT Hospital. However, he declared dead on arrival by doctors , police said. Mukesh said his brother could have been saved if they had rushed him to the hospital on time.
"A crowd gathered around the damaged car, but no one alerted the police or took him to hospital," said Mukesh.
He later filed a complaint against the accused driver and an FIR was registered against him under IPC sections 279 (rash driving), 337 (causing hurt) and 304 A (death in accident) at the Farrukhnagar police station. "Police are checking the footage captured by CCTV cameras installed in the area to identify and nab the accused at the earliest," said a police officer.
In another accident that took place on the KMP Expressway an SUV overturned, injuring eight people, on Tuesday. Among them, an 80-year-old woman and a 15-year-old girl were critically injured. The driver was trying to save a stray dog that had come in the middle of the road, but he lost his balance and the vehicle overturned.
The traffic on the 135-km-long KMP Expressway - a peripheral road to Delhi passing through five districts in Haryana - has almost doubled over the past year. The expressway sees around 60,000 vehicles per day. It has 120 kmph as the maximum speed and has emerged as a major accident zone in region. Almost 8-10 fatal accidents take place on the Expressway every month. Since these mostly involve heavy commercial vehicles and light private vehicles driven at high speeds, the survival rate is low.
All 10 toll plazas have ambulances and cranes, but government hospitals are at a considerable distance, delaying immediate medical aid.
Overspeeding is one of the major causes of accidents, but there is no mechanism to keep a check on it.