Pedestrian,19, dies in tractor accident amid dense fog in Sohna

Kumar and his friend were walking along the road when the tractor, towing a trolley loaded with reinforcement bars from Sohna to Jhajjar, approached from behind

Updated on: Jan 7, 2025, 05:58:18 IST

By Debashish Karmakar, Gurugram

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A 19-year-old pedestrian was run over by a tractor trolley near his residence in Silani village, Sohna, at 10pm on Saturday, police said on Monday, adding that the accident took place due to poor visibility.

The deceased man’s shawl got entangled in one of the hooks of the trolley, pulling him beneath the rear wheels. He died instantly at the spot after being run over. (Representational image)

The victim, Vivek Kumar, a college student in Sohna, was returning home after watering crops in his fields when the accident took place, police said. Inspector Jagjit Singh, station house officer (SHO) of Sadar Sohna police station, said, “The deceased man’s shawl got entangled in one of the hooks of the trolley, pulling him beneath the rear wheels. He died instantly at the spot after being run over. His friend raised an alarm, but the tractor vanished in the fog.”

According to investigators, Kumar and his friend were walking along the road when the tractor, towing a trolley loaded with reinforcement bars from Sohna to Jhajjar, approached from behind. Neither the driver nor the pedestrian could see each other due to the dense fog, they added.

Police said the shawl of the deceased tore during the accident and was found lying 80–90 meters from the scene. Kumar’s family rushed him to a subdivisional hospital in Sohna, but he was declared dead. The body was handed over to the family after an autopsy on Sunday, they added.

Villagers later reported finding an abandoned tractor trolley with bloodstains about 3–4 kilometres from the accident site. “The tractor trolley was impounded, and the circumstances of the accident became clear,” said Singh.

An FIR was registered against the unidentified tractor driver at the Sadar Sohna police station on Sunday. The case was filed under Sections 106 (causing death by negligence) and 281 (rash driving on a public way) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita based on a written complaint by Kumar’s uncle, Vinod Kumar.

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Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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