Class VI student dies as truck hits bike

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 8

An 11-year-old boy riding a bicycle was killed after his bicycle was hit by a speeding truck at the Sector 33/32/20/30 roundabout yesterday. The victim, a Class VI student, was returning home from tuition when the mishap took place.

According to the police, the victim has been identified as Gaurav Kumar, a student of St Anne’s Convent School, Sector 32.

Gaurav was returning to his house in Sector 20 after attending tuition classes in Sector 32 when the speeding truck hit the bicycle at Gurdwara Chowk.

The victim, who was profusely bleeding, was rushed to the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMSH), Sector 32, where he succumbed to his injuries. Relatives of the victim said he died of a head injury. The victim’s father, Rajesh Kumar, works as a superintendent at the Haryana Secretariat.

Gaurav was the elder son of Rajesh Kumar. The autopsy was conducted today after which the body was handed over to the family.

The truck driver, Partap Singh, a native of Amritsar, has been arrested by the police. A case under Sections 279 (rash driving), 304-A (causing death by negligence) and 337 (causing hurt by an act endangering the life or personal safety of others) of the IPC has been registered against the accused at the Sector 34 police station.

Father was already hospitalised   

The victim’s father, Rajesh Kumar, who was already admitted to the GMCH, due to some illness, had to get himself discharged from the hospital to perform the last rites. He was later again admitted to the hospital. 

Kith and kin offer condolences 

A pall of gloom descended on the victim, Gaurav’s house in Sector 20 where relatives and friends arrived to offer condolences.