Flung to roadside, dragged for nearly 80m: Nuh accident kills 4, including three children

The man’s wife was critically injured. Police reported the accident occurred around 11pm; the driver fled the scene, and an FIR was filed against him.

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A man and three children were killed after a speeding truck hit their motorcycle and dragged them for nearly 80 metres on a narrow single-lane road in Nuh late Tuesday, police said on Wednesday. The man’s wife, who was also travelling on the motorcycle, was critically injured and is undergoing treatment.

The accident took place around 11pm near Maria Manzil School on the Nuh-Tauru road, police said. The victims were identified as Mohammad Shakir, 32, a resident of Padla Shahpuri village in Nuh’s Firozpur Jhirka, his one-and-a-half-month-old daughter Zahra, two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Sajra and five-year-old niece Gazala, officers said.

Shakir’s wife, Nasreen, 25, was critically injured and is undergoing treatment at Shaheed Hasan Khan government medical college and hospital in Nalhar, Nuh, officers added.

Police said Shakir, an Urdu language teacher in a madrasa in Tauru, was returning home with his wife and the four children after attending a family function at a relative’s house in Tauru when the truck hit their motorcycle.

Police said the bobtail semi-truck was travelling at an estimated 80-90 kmph when it hit the motorcycle. Nasreen was flung onto the roadside, while the other four fell with the motorcycle and were run over. None of them were wearing helmets, they added.

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“The four fell on the road with the motorcycle and were run over by the truck. The truck didn’t slow after hitting the motorcycle,” said inspector Ajit Singh, station house officer of the City police station. Singh said the impact killed all four instantly. “Their bodies were mutilated after being dragged under the truck for 80-90 metres,” he said.

Singh said CCTV footage from a nearby shop captured the accident. The motorcycle was also broken into several pieces. Commuters alerted police, following which police and emergency response vehicles reached the spot. Traffic remained disrupted for nearly an hour.

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Singh said the bodies were shifted to a government hospital in Nalhar and handed over to the family after autopsies on Wednesday. The driver abandoned the truck at least a kilometre away and fled on foot, Singh said. The truck was seized, and he is expected to be arrested soon.

An FIR was registered against the unidentified truck driver under sections 106 (causing death by negligence) and 281 (rash driving) of BNS at Nuh City police station on Wednesday.

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  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