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SUV runs over biker near Hotel Mountview in Chandigarh
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.
