Bride-to-be suffers fractures 10 days before marriage due to water tanker accident on Sarjapur Road

Last week, 28-year-old Sunanda Barki, a resident of RV Layout was hit by a water tanker on Sarjapur Road. The bride-to-be was injured grievously.

The incident occurred on June 4 at around 8.40am. Sunanda was riding her TVS scooter towards Iblur when a water tanker (KA14B1924) allegedly driven rashly by a male driver hit her vehicle from behind at SLV Ceramics junction near Doddakannelli. The impact was such that her bike skidded about 10 feet on the stretch, breaking her left thigh and right shoulder bone. In addition, there were scratches on her legs. The driver drove away without attending to the victim.

The passersby rushed her to the nearby Columbia Asia Hospital in an auto. The doctors operated on her thigh and inserted a rod. The tragedy is such that Sunanda’s wedding was fixed on June 14 and she was involved in an accident ten days earlier.

The cops have registered a case against the driver for rash driving (IPC 279), causing grievous hurt (IPC 338), shirking duty to rush the victims to the hospital (Indian Motor Vehicles Act 134), an offence that is punishable with imprisonment of three months or a fine of Rs 500 (IMV 187).