On May 26, at around 10.30am, 23-year-old Naveen Kumar, a resident of KR Puram was travelling in a cab along with his elder brother Kiran (25) and cousin Manikantha (25) after arriving in Bangalore from Chennai. After getting down from the bus at Silk Board junction, they had boarded an Ola cab (KA03AA5625) to go towards KR Puram.
Anjappa M was the 37-year-old driver who allegedly drove rashly and overspeeding on Outer Ring Road. When he reached 14th Main Road near the BDA flyover in HSR Layout, he hit the flyover wall in front of JSS College. The result was that Naveen hurt his knee from the impact with the front seat, Manikantha’s left leg was injured while Kiran’s face had hit the windshield due to the impact, hurting his left eye, face, forehead and head.
The vehicle wasn’t spared either. The front portion of the Tata Indica was completely damaged. The cab driver left the car and ran away after the incident. The passersby rushed the victims to St John’s Hospital in an autorickshaw.
The cops have registered a case of rash driving (IPC 279), endangering life (IPC 337), shirking his duty to rush the victims to the hospital (Indian Motor Vehicles Act 134), and punishable with imprisonment of three months or a fine of Rs 500 (IMV 187).
