At 12:30 pm on ISKCON Bridge, people gathered to witness an accident, Nabira drove a car at 160 kmph on the crowd. At 12:30 pm on ISKCON Bridge, people gathered to witness an accident, Nabira drove a car at 160 kmph on the crowd.

A 16-year-old minor driving a Thar Jeep rammed into an oncoming dumper on the ISKCON Bridge in western Ahmedabad at 12.30 pm on Thursday. With the accident, the jeep collided with the divider and stopped. Hearing the crash, the youths who were sitting on the tea kettle under the bridge came running to help. On being informed, the police team also reached the spot. A crowd of 30 to 35 people had gathered at the spot. The people present had no idea what was going to happen in a matter of seconds. The police had just started their operation when a Jaguar car rushing at a speed of 160 km per hour plowed into the crowd. The car threw people 120 feet away. The collision was so huge that 8 people died on the spot. Jaguar car hit the Thar Jeep and it took only 4 to 5 seconds for 9 persons to fall 120 feet. In a moment there were screams all around and there was a big explosion as if a bomb had exploded.

The fire was so huge that 8 people died on the spot
Jaguar driver Tathya Prajnesh Patel came out of the car as mobs surrounded him and beat him up. While three other girls and a young man who were sitting in the car fled from there in another car. At first Tathya spoke to people in threatening language. While the mob was killing him, his father Prajnesh Patel also arrived and threatened to kill the people. On the one hand, there was this scene, on the other hand, a dead body covered with film on the Jaguar’s bonnet and five other bodies lying around the Jaguar were lying on the road in a pool of blood. Someone’s mobile phone and someone’s slippers were scattered all around. A large crowd of people arrived and in no time the police rushed in. A policeman standing there called 108 and around 8 injured people were taken to Sola Civil for treatment.

This is the killer Tathya Patel with his father Prajnesh Patel

It became difficult for the police to identify the dead bodies
But it became difficult for the police to identify the dead bodies lying on the road. However, connecting the clues, the police first called Arman’s relatives from Botad. He was identified by removing the cloth covering the dead body. After identifying four other youths, they were found to be from Botad and Surendranagar. He came here to study. At one point, it was raining heavily and dead bodies were lying on the road. So the police took videography and immediately put the dead bodies in the ambulance before the rain started. Seven persons had to be helped in removing the body from the Jaguar’s bonnet. Some of the youths had their legs amputated while others had their entire bodies twisted. The scene on the road became desperate as heavy rains started. When the police searched the car, they found a lady’s purse in it. At the end of this incident which lasted till 4 pm, FSL arrived for investigation. All the high officials of the police had also arrived. The bridge was closed for vehicular traffic from 12.30 pm which was not reopened for 12 hours.

36 thousand died in 82 thousand accidents in Gujarat in 5 years

The dead…

Akshar Chavda Botad, U.21 Aman Katchi Surendranagar U.21

Armaan Wadhwania Surendranagar, Age 21 Nirav Ramanand Ahmedabad, Age 22

Nilesh Khatik Home Guard, U.38 Jaswant Chauhan Head Const.

Krunal Dodia Botad, U.24 Dharmendra Singh Parmar Po.Const. A.40

Ronak Bihalpura Botad, U.23

Charge sheet in 1 week, fast track- case will be in court, campaign against over speeding will be done

A high-level meeting of the Gujarat government was held after the tragic midnight accident on ISKCON Bridge in Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad. In this meeting, it has been decided to investigate the incident under the direct supervision of the Ahmedabad Police Commissioner and it has been decided to present the charge sheet in this case within a week and try the case in the fast track court. However, in this meeting, the deficiencies in the management of street lights and CCTV cameras on the road in areas including SG Highway were revealed. The government brainstormed in the two-hour meeting and it is learned that there was deep brainstorming on the issue.

Due to lack of grant, the municipality stopped operating the CCTV cameras
Sources in the government say that the CCTV cameras installed under the Smart City Project in Ahmedabad for a long time, the Municipal Corporation stopped operating them due to not getting more grant for this project. However, with the intention of monitoring traffic related offences, the police took care of it from their own grant. This issue was also discussed here. Apart from this, since the street lights on the overbridges on the highways are off, a situation like blind spots is created at many places.

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation system was also attacked on this issue
The National Highway Authority has handed over the responsibility of street lights to the local administration by constructing an overbridge on the SG Highway. The issue that the street light on the bridge was off at the time of the incident was also discussed in this meeting. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation system was also attacked on this issue.

According to the list published by the government, it is said that in the meeting, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel gave instructions to the Chief Secretary to strengthen coordination between police, road-building, urban development department and local authorities regarding CCTV camera network and light-poles on highways of cities to monitor the speed of vehicles on highways across the state including highways passing through cities.