41-year-old Swaroop Mothidath, a software engineer and resident of Confident Phoenix apartment in Kasavanahalli, died in front of ICICI Bank on 27th Main Road in Sector 1 yesterday (November 22) when a water tanker ran over him at around 1.10pm. He is survived by wife and three year old twins – a daughter and son.
Here is how it happened. Praveena (37 years) decided to step out for lunch with friend Srinivas. While they were both standing in front of ICICI Bank to cross the road, a two wheeler rider was coming from NIFT college and proceeding towards the HSR Police station on 27th Main. At around the same time, a water tanker (Reg No KA03-HA423) coming from the opposite side was being driven at high speed and rashly on the wrong side of the road. It resulted in a head-on collision with the bike with the rear wheel of the tanker going over the rider.
Praveena and Srinivas rushed towards the victim and realised that he was not able to speak and had incurred severe injuries. They took him to the nearest NH Narayana hospital in an auto. However, the doctors declared that the victim had died on the way to the hospital at 1.36pm.
The driver of the water tanker pretended to stop the vehicle while talking to somebody on the phone. Later, he drove away with the tanker. A case has been lodged against the driver under four sections of the Indian Penal Code.
