AHMEDABAD: A four-year-old boy from Ontario province in Canada died on Sunday after being run over by a car outside a housing society in the Uvarsad area of Gandhinagar district. The deceased, Vivan Raval, had come to Gandhinagar for his maternal uncleâs wedding on December 13 with his mother Pooja and father Dhvanil Raval, who works for a bank in Canada. The accident occurred on Sunday afternoon when Vivan and Pooja were waiting for a cab as they headed to CG Road in Ahmedabad for shopping. At that time, a resident of the apartment building, Jayram Vamja, a professor at a private college in Uvarsad, drove out of the society gate and hit the boy. According to the FIR filed at Adalaj police station, Dhvanil said that they had come to India from Canada a month ago for Poojaâs brotherâs wedding. âAt around 2.45pm on Sunday, Pooja and Vivan went downstairs to catch a cab to go to CG Road. When they were waiting for the cab, Vamja drove his car at speed and hit Vivan,â he said. Vivan began bleeding from his nose and was rushed to a nearby private hospital in a car. He was admitted to the ICU of the hospital in Sargasan, where he died during treatment at around 4.15pm on Sunday, stated the FIR. Adalaj police later registered a complaint against Vamja under charges of negligent driving causing death. Officers of Adalaj police said there is a sharp curve at the entrance gate which obstructed the driverâs vision and he could not see the little boy moving about there. CCTV footage of the accident shows that the boy was moving when Vamja was driving through the curve on the slope to go outside.
A four-year-old boy was crushed to death by a car exiting a residential society in Gandhinagar, Gujarat on Sunday.According to police, the accident occurred outside Swastik 42 society in Sargasan of Gandhinagar around 2:45 pm on Sunday. The victim Vivaan Raval, a citizen of Canada, was crushed to death by an i10 car exiting the society, CCTV footage showed.The deceased was the son of Dhvanil Raval who has been working in Ontario in Canada for the past seven years as the Director IT Engineer at the Royal Bank of Canada. According to the police, Vivaan had arrived in Gandhinagar a month ago with his mother Pooja and were staying at the house of his maternal grandparents at Swastik 42 society in connection with an upcoming wedding ceremony.“My brother-in-law’s wedding ceremony is scheduled on December 13 and my wife and son had come to Gandhinagar one month ago from Canada. I arrived from Canada on Sunday. Today around 2:45 pm, we booked an Uber cab to go to Ahmedabad for shopping and I, my wife and Vivaan went downstairs to catch the cab. As Vivaan was waiting at the exit gate, an i10 car came from the basement parking and took a sharp left turn from the exit gate in a negligent manner and mowed down my son. I took my son to Aashka Hospital in Sargasan where he was declared dead by doctors,” wrote Dhvanil in a police complaint.Jayram Vamji, a resident of B block in Swastik 42 society who drove the i10 car at the time of the accident was booked by the police under IPC sections 304A for causing death by negligence and 279 for rash driving. The case has been registered at the Adalaj police station in Gandhinagar.
As many as 18 persons died and several were injured in different road accidents in Kutch, Bharuch, Aravalli, Kheda and Vadodara on Wednesday and Thursday ahead of Kali Chaudas and Diwali festivals.Three people died and two were injured in an accident in the Rahiyol area of Dhansura of Aravalli on Thursday morning in a collision between a car and a tempo. According to the police, the accident occurred around 10 am when a family of five persons was travelling in a car.Three people died in another road accident on the Ahmedabad-Vadodara expressway on Thursday morning when a Honda city car hit a milk truck from behind.The identities of the six victims in Aravalli and Vadodara expressway accidents are yet to be ascertained, said the police.Seven people died in six different road accidents in Bhuj and Gandhidham cities of Kutch on Tuesday and Wednesday, said the police.In the first accident, a 40-year-old businessman Mohammad Usman Khan, a native of Jaipur in Rajasthan, was killed when he was driving a truck on the Gandhidham-Bhachau highway in Anjar. Around 4:30 am on Wednesday, another speeding truck hit his vehicle in a head-on collision.“The victim owned a transport company and was travelling in a truck from Mundra port in Kutch Bhuj to New Delhi when his vehicle was hit by another truck,” said Muhar Khan, brother-in-law of the victim in his complaint.Taking cognisance, the police lodged a case under IPC 304A for causing death due to negligence not amounting to culpable homicide and sections of rash driving against the unknown truck driver.In another accident, Bhagat Patel (28), a native of Panna in Madhya Pradesh, died when a speeding bike on which he was riding pillion, lost control and slipped on a stretch near Varsana village in Anjar of Gandhidham. According to the police, the victim, who was going towards his factory on Tuesday afternoon, injured his head and died on the spot. A case under IPC 304A was lodged against his friend Narayan Singh who was riding the bike.In another accident, a 36-year-old labourer was mowed to death by a speeding truck in the Samakhiyari area of Gandhidham on Wednesday evening around 4 pm. The victim Arvind Aherbar, a native of Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh, was working at a factory spot when the truck mowed him down and the driver fled, said the police.In another accident, two men riding a motorcycle lost their lives when they were hit by an auto-rickshaw near the Trambo cross-section in Rapar of Gandhidham. The victims have been identified as Parbat Samaiyya (35) and Ramji Parmar (22), natives of Rapar.Meanwhile, a 21-year-old youth Habib Mandal, a native of West Bengal, lost his life after a motorcycle he was riding on slipped on a stretch at Padana village in Gandhidham city on Wednesday afternoon. Similarly, a 22-year-old youth Jetshi Sodha died in an accident near Nakhatrana of Kutch when his bike was hit by a speeding jeep on Wednesday afternoon.Three people died in Bharuch in three different accidents on Tuesday and Wednesday. In the first, 54-year-old Meera Vasava, a resident of Bharuch, died when a rickshaw she was travelling in overturned after losing balance on a stretch on the Bharuch Ankleshwar service road on Wednesday morning. In another, 32-year-old Sajid Mudhia, a resident of Chanchvel village in Vagra Taluka of Bharuch, died on Wednesday morning when his bike was hit by an unknown vehicle near his village. In the third, Sanjay Vasava (30), a native of Nabipur village in Bharuch, was mowed to death by an unknown vehicle near his village, when he was walking.Two persons died and three others were injured in a road accident on the national highway in the Matar area of Kheda on Tuesday when a speeding unknown car hit an autorickshaw from behind in which victims were travelling. The victims have been identified as Irfan Shaikh (46) and Mumtaz Banu (65), both residents of Ahmedabad.Meanwhile, 10-12 persons were injured in a road accident on Thursday morning in Botad when a private bus travelling from Rajkot to Bhavnagar met with an accident.
AHMEDABAD: Call it the positive side effect of Covid-19 pandemic, but the lockdowns and subsequent restriction on movements drastically reduced the road fatalities in Gujarat. In fact, with drop of 20.7% compared to the cases in 2019 (8,440), it was the decadeâs lowest death number for the state at 6,693. The data was shared in National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) publication âAccidental Deaths and Suicides in India 2020.â While it was the lowest fatalities at least since 2011 for Surat and Vadodara that recorded drop of 36% and 7.5% respectively, Ahmedabad and Rajkot recorded drop of 20% and 22% - their lowest since 2013. However, on the other hand, the state recorded increase in pedestrian deaths â from 728 in 2019 to 824 in 2020, rise of 13%. Moreover, analysis of the vehicles involved reveal that two-wheelers, which were involved in 35% of the fatal accidents in 2019, rose to 41% in 2020. On the other hand, carsâ share remained the same at 14%. According to the report, 75% or three-fourths of the fatal road accidents were attributed to over-speeding. The rural and semi-urban areas accounted for 77% of the fatal accidents, whereas the rest 33% were recorded in the urban areas according to the report. City-based road safety experts said that apart from the higher speed of vehicles, lack of quicker medical attention after the incident could also be the reason for higher fatality in areas outside cities. In terms of accidental deaths, Gujarat recorded 13% drop in numbers, from 23,770 in 2019 to 20,644 in 2020.
