Chhattisgarh: Driver opens door at 100kmph to spit gutka, man dies in crash; 3 hurt
In Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur, a reckless act by an Innova driver led to a fatal accident on Monday. While speeding, the driver opened the door to spit gutkha, causing the vehicle to flip and crash.
RAIPUR: In a moment of recklessness, an Innova driver swung open the door to spit gutkha while speeding at more than 100kmph, causing the MUV to flip over and crash, killing a businessman and critically injuring two men in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur on Monday.
The Innova went somersaulting down the road, hitting two vehicles and injuring one of their drivers.
Police said the deceased, Jackie Gehi, 31, a cloth merchant from Chakarbhatha on the outskirts of Bilaspur — 100km from Raipur — had gone to a late-night party on Sunday and called a friend, Akash Chandani, around 1.30am to pick him up. Akash arrived with another friend, Pankaj Chhabra, in an Innova.
Akash was driving, Pankaj sat in the front passenger seat, and Jackie was in the back.
On Bilaspur-Raipur highway, Akash suddenly opened the door while driving to spit gutkha. He instantly lost control of the vehicle, which swerved into the divider and overturned multiple times.
The force of the impact threw all three occupants out of the vehicle, which went hurtling down the highway. Jackie was flung violently and struck a metal structure near the divider, sustaining fatal injuries to his chest, head, and shoulders.
He died on the spot. Akash and Pankaj were also ejected and slammed into the ground, suffering grievous injuries.
The out-of-control Innova slammed into a parked commercial vehicle, overturned four to five times more, and finally crashed into a parked Ertiga, injuring its driver, who never had a chance to turn on the ignition and get out of harm's way.
The horrifying accident was caught on CCTV. The footage shows the vehicle flipping down the road, and one of the passengers being ejected and slamming into a pole.
Emergency services were on the scene swiftly as passersby alerted authorities. Police sealed off the area and hospitalised the injured. The wreckage was later cleared from the road.
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