21-year-old labourer dies as car hits jeep at Matka Chowk

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 11

A 21-year-old youth, working as a labourer at the marble market, was killed while another man was injured when a speeding Chevrolet Cruze car rammed into a Mahindra jeep, which was parked at Matka Chowk late last night.

According to the police, the jeep, that had returned from Solan after delivering marble, broke down at Matka Chowk following which the driver, Hari Chand, parked it on the right side of the road dividing Sectors 17 and 9.

The driver called for help after which the victim, Mukesh, a labourer working at the marble market in Dhanas, reached there. The police said Mukesh was standing near the jeep and Hari Chand was checking the fault when the speeding Cruze, bearing a registration number of Chandigarh, rammed into the jeep from the rear side.

The front portion of the car got wrecked and the airbags opened. The car driver fled from the spot, leaving the vehicle behind.

A PCR vehicle rushed to the spot and shifted the injured to Government Multi-Specialty Hospital (GMSH), Sector 16, where Mukesh was declared brought dead. Hari Chand is out of danger.

The victim was unmarried. Police officials said the car driver was yet to be identified.

Sources said the car was registered at an address in Sector 44, but it was resold.

The police have registered a case against the unidentified car driver 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 Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the Sector 3 police station.