Speeding car on wrong side kills bike taxi rider in Gurugram

The rider was returning home when struck head-on near Kendriya Vihar. With no eyewitnesses at the spot, investigators are tracking a suspicious car seen on another camera.

Published on: Feb 18, 2026, 07:08:16 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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A 26-year-old man from Rajasthan who had recently moved to the city to support his family died after allegedly being hit by a car speeding in the wrong direction in Sector 56 late Sunday, police said on Tuesday. The victim, Hanuman Ram from Ravali Nadi in Barmer district, had joined work just a day earlier, officers added.

Family said he sustained severe head injuries and fractures after being flung by the impact. FIR filed for rash driving and causing death by negligence. (Getty Images)

Police said Ram arrived in Gurugram on Friday and was staying with his uncle Ashok Kumar in Sector 53. He began working as a bike taxi rider on Saturday using Kumar’s scooter.

Investigators said Ram was near the entrance of Kendriya Vihar in Sector 56, returning to his room between 11pm and 11.15pm Sunday, when a speeding car hit him from the front. He collapsed on the spot. Commuters alerted police, and an online ambulance took him to a private hospital in Sushant Lok-II, where doctors declared him dead.

Kumar said he called Ram around 11.20pm, but hospital authorities answered. “I rushed there after alerting other family members. Ram sustained severe head injuries and fractures after being flung for several feet from the impact. He had reached Gurugram mere two days before to start working. His father is a farmer. Ram had planned to support education of his 22-year-old sister and 18-year-old brother back in the village,” he said.

Sandeep Turan, spokesperson of Gurugram police, said there were no eyewitnesses or CCTV cameras near the spot. “A suspicious car was visible in another camera away from the spot at the time when accident took place but its registration number was unclear. We are trying to trace and arrest the driver as soon as possible,” he said.

On a complaint by Ram’s uncle, an FIR was registered at Sector 56 police station against an unidentified car driver under sections 106 (causing death by negligence) and 281 (rash driving) of the BNS on Monday. The body was handed over after an autopsy.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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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