Student critical after being run over by speeding truck in Sohna

The truck driver was speeding and failed to slow down when the girl along with other students and pedestrians were crossing the road

Updated on: Feb 24, 2024, 06:22:07 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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A Class 12 student of Government Girls Senior Secondary School in Sohna was critically injured after a speeding trailer truck ran over her while she was crossing a road near Sohna bus depot on Thursday, police officials aware of the matter said on Friday.

Police said the driver fled from the spot leaving behind the truck. (Representational image)

Police said the accident took place when the 16-year-old girl, Saraswati Tanwar, a resident of Nahar Colony in Sohna, was returning home from school. The truck driver was speeding and failed to slow down when the girl along with other school students and pedestrians were crossing the road, they added.

Investigators said that Tanwar’s right leg was badly crushed and she also sustained severe injuries in her head and abdomen.

Inspector Sudhir Kumar, public relations officer of Gurugram Police, said the local residents immediately arranged an ambulance and rushed her to a nearby hospital. After undergoing initial treatment in Gurugram, she was shifted to Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital where doctors performed a four-hour surgery on her leg on Friday in an attempt to save it from amputation, he added.

“The driver fled from the spot leaving behind the truck, which was seized,” he added.

Sunil Tanwar, the victim’s father, said, “Doctors have not said anything clearly about her condition, which is serious,” he said.

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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