Two people died in a car crash in Mumbai on Tuesday morning
A woman lawyer whose red Audi Q3 car crashed into a taxi early on Tuesday morning in Mumbai, might have driven on the wrong side of the Eastern Freeway for 11 kilometres, the police have said. Two people traveling in the taxi were killed in the accident.
Sources in Mumbai Police have told NDTV that the woman, Jahnavi Gadkar, left a south Mumbai restaurant allegedly after consuming alcohol, and drove to Nariman Point at about 11 pm on Tuesday.
They said she stopped at Marine Drive for about two hours. Sources say she allegedly dozed off while she parked the car at Marine Drive. The police believe she did this hoping to be sober before she drove home.
From Marine Drive the 35-year-old lawyer drove at high speed till the P D'Mello road, from where she got on to the Eastern Freeway. The police suspected she got on to the wrong lane there and drove for over 11 kilometres, before the
Audi collided head-on with a taxi coming from the opposite direction.
Two of five people in taxi died. Such was the impact, that gas cutters had to be used to retrieve the driver's body from the badly mangled taxi. Eyewitnesses told NDTV that the lawyer's car was travelling at a very high speed in the wrong lane with blaring music. One witness who was travelling through the Freeway said the accident made a huge noise, waking up nearby residents.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Sangramsinh Nishandar told NDTV, "We are in the process of collecting all evidence. Both physical and electronic is being collected. We have recorded statements of crucial witnesses too and every statement is being corroborated with evidence."
Ms Gadkar has been sent to police custody till June 12. She has been booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.