Car-oil tanker crash: Kuber Group director asked to join probe
Nuh, August 27
Kuber Group director Vikas Malu, who was injured in a crash between a Rolls Royce and an oil tanker that killed two persons, has been sent a notice by the police to join the investigation into the accident, an official said on Sunday.
While the oil tanker’s driver and his helper were killed, the three occupants of the car, including Malu, were injured in the accident on the Delhi-Mumbai-Baroda Expressway near Haryana’s Umri village on Tuesday afternoon.
Malu has been asked to join the investigation, the senior police officer said.
Initial reports suggested that the oil tanker was being driven on the wrong side of the road and it collided with the luxury car near Umri village under the Nagina police station limits However, according to the FIR registered on the day of the accident at the police station, it was the car that came from behind and hit the front tyre of the oil tanker. Because of this, the tanker overturned, according to the FIR.
The police on Friday had said Malu was admitted to a private hospital in Gurugram. Malu’s statement would be recorded once he is discharged from the hospital, they had said.
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