JAIPUR: Two sisters in their 30s were killed and a man injured when a speeding car hit their vehicles at an intersection near Parnami Mandir in Adarsh Nagar on Sunday morning.
Preeti Jain (36) and her sister Tripti Jain (32) died at SMS Hospital when the car (RJ 45 CP 3491) ran over them after hitting their scooter. Shailendra Singh Chouhan (32), whose bike was also hit by the same car, is undergoing treatment in the same hospital. As the three injured lay bleeding on the road, the car’s driver and his friends quickly abandoned the vehicle and fled from the scene.
Locals gathered at the spot and informed the police and ambulance. Accident po- lice station (east) SHO Jaimal Singh said police had identified the car’s driver and two passengers by late evening.
‘Car driver lost control due to high speed’
“One Udit Sharma was driving the car. He was accompanied by Nitesh and Ravi. All of them are students and were returning from a party, they are aged between 22 to 23,” he said, adding that the police would investigate and interrogate the three. Both Preeti and Tripti were residents of the Shanti Path area. They were returning home from a Jain temple, when the car came barrelling through Guru Ramdas Marg and hit their scooter. The car then rammed into Chouhan’s bike.
The scooter flew into the air because of the impact and crashed into a tree nearby. The accident was so severe that the vehicle was twisted out of shape. The car’s bonnet had come off and its engine parts were seen spread on the road.
According to police, the driver had lost control due to excessive speed. Locals said the car had briefly spun and struck into a pavement outside a home. When the culprits fled from the scene, people up outside a dairy booth a few meters away ran to help the injured. The family of the deceased has filed a case against the driver.
