A 61-year-old LIC housing finance agent was killed after a speeding Thar rammed his scooter and dragged him for nearly 20 metres before crashing into the boundary wall of a house in Kanpur on Saturday night.
Police seized the vehicle and sent Santosh’s body for a post-mortem examination. Santosh is survived by his wife, Sunita, son Rahul, an engineer, and daughter Sakshi, who works with a multinational company in Bengaluru.
The Thar, which had “Krishna Group” written on its rear, is registered in the name of Krishna Kumar, a resident of Gyan Villa in Panki. Rahul said his father had gone out on Saturday evening to buy a saree for his mother and was returning home when the accident occurred.
The victim, Santosh Singh Chauhan, a resident of Swaraj Nagar in Panki, was returning home on his scooter after shopping in Keshavpuram. The accident took place around 8 pm near Gayatri Palace in Awas Vikas-3, Kalyanpur. Vinod Kumar, a lawyer who witnessed the accident while riding home with his wife on a motorcycle, said the Thar approached from behind at around 100 kmph.
