Speeding SUV hits two-wheeler, pedestrians in Gandhinagar; 2 dead, 3 injured after

Police said 35-year-old Hitesh Patel was behind the wheel when the Tata Safari rammed into people on the left side of the service road.

Published on: Jul 25, 2025, 19:37:34 IST

By Maulik Pathak

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Ahmedabad: Two people were killed and three others injured on Friday when a speeding sports utility vehicle hit a two-wheeler and some pedestrians in Randesan area of Gandhinagar, police said.

According to CCTV footage, the incident took place at about 10:15am.

Police said 35-year-old Hitesh Patel was behind the wheel when the Tata Safari rammed into people on the left side of the service road.

Police said it was yet to be determined if Patel was under influence of alcohol or drugs at the time.

“The accused Hitesh Patel was driving at high speed. It appears he was traveling at more than 80 kilometers per hour,” said Gandhinagar superintendent of police (SP) Ravi Teja Vasamsetty.

He said the accused has been booked under sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

The deceased have been identified as Hansaben Vaghela and Nitinbhai Vas.

Earlier in March this year, an MSU law student Rakshit Chaurasiya, 23, hit three vehicles, killing a woman and injuring several others, while driving under the influence of drugs on March 13. Officials said forensic tests showed Chaurasiya was high on marijuana when he was driving a friend’s car at the time of the incident near Chandravali Circle in the Karelibaug area.

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Maulik Pathak
He is an Ahmedabad-based journalist with more than two decades of experience. His career spans business journalism and general news, with reporting across politics, crime, governance, public policy, business, industry, infrastructure, energy, ports, aviation, the environment, wildlife and social issues. He began his career in feature writing before moving into business journalism, reporting on companies and sectors including energy, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, automobiles and real estate. Over the years, his work expanded to politics, courts, crime, public policy, civic affairs, the environment and wildlife. His reporting has taken him from government offices and courtrooms to factory floors, ports, forests and remote villages, covering stories that range from industrial investments and financial markets to elections, conservation and issues affecting everyday life. While many assignments demand the pace of the daily news cycle, others require sustained reporting over months and years to follow developments beyond the headlines. He started his journalism career with the Asian Age in Ahmedabad in 2002 as a feature writer and sub-editor. Since 2022, he has been working with Hindustan Times. Earlier, he worked with Business Standard, DNA, The Economic Times, Mint and The Times of India. His longest stint was with Mint, where he spent more than eight years reporting across multiple beats. During his career, he has worked in both reporting and editing roles, contributing to page planning, local editions and special editorial projects as newsrooms evolved from print-first operations to digital publishing. Early in his career, he also worked on media and documentary projects with an NGO and as a copywriter at a communications agency before returning to journalism. Away from work, he sometimes makes time for a pair of binoculars, table tennis, cinema and the occasional poem.Read More

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