The motorcyclist was on his way in front of the hotel, when he crashed into an open car door, before being run over by another vehicle
A 35-year-old motorcyclist was run over by an SUV after he rammed into a car’s open door near Mountview Hotel in Sector 10 on Tuesday evening.
The victim, Raju Pandey, was a resident of Nayagaon.
Police booked the drivers of both cars under Section 106 (1) (causing death by negligence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
The driver of the SUV, a Mahindra Scorpio, Jagdeep Singh, 51, told police that he was driving on the road in front of Hotel Mountview, where a white Jeep Compass was parked.
The backseat passenger of the Jeep Compass suddenly opened the car door and a motorcycle crashed into it, before being run over by his car, said Singh, a resident of Sector 79, Mohali.
He said the motorcyclist was rushed to a hospital in the Jeep Compass, whose driver, Arnav Bahri, 19, from Sector 15-A, was present at the scene. But the victim succumbed to his injuries.
The Sector 3 police seized the damaged vehicles and booked Jagdeep and Arnav for their roles in the accident.