Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (MS)
Mangaluru, Oct 20: The city police have begun investigation into the hit-and-run case that occurred on Wednesday afternoon in which a young girl lost her life near Ladyhill.
Five girls were walking on the footpath while the car driven by Kamlesh Baldev crashed into them. It is said that the negligence of the driver is the cause for the accident. The whole tragedy was caught on a nearby CCTV camera.
Speaking to media, city police commissioner Anupam Agarwal said, “The driver did not consume liquor or drugs. The medical examination did not give any evidence of the driver under the influence of liquor or drugs. The driver said that he lost control of the vehicle as the engine of the car got overheated. The RTO officials are going to investigate whether there was any technical fault in the vehicle. In addition, other possibilities are also looked into including other CC camera footages.”
Most of the footpaths in the city are unscientifically built. There is a wide interlock area between road and footpath. Most of the pedestrians walk on the interlock area and not the footpath. Many vehicles are parked on the interlock area also. At many places, footpaths are just one inch above the road. In these places it can be seen that vehicles are parked on the footpath.
The footpath where the accident took place on Wednesday is also just a shade above the concrete road. That is why the car easily climbed onto the footpath.
Investigation is also done to assess whether the driver of the car was speaking on mobile phone while the accident took place. There is a possibility that he might have lost control of steering as one hand is used for mobile phone. Hence, the police are verifying CCTV footages of the travel path of the car just before the accident.