Three people were killed and as many injured as an inebriated 18-year-old allegedly rammed his Mercedes into a taxi after jumping a red light in Mohali and then hit two cyclists. The teenager Samrat, a Chandigarh-resident who was allegedly driving the luxury car, was arrested by the police on late Saturday night.
Two occupants of the taxi, Dharampreet Singh and Ankush Narula, and a cyclist, Ram Prasad, died, while three people sustained injuries in the crash near the Radha Soami Chowk on early Saturday morning, the police said.
The police have booked Samrat and his friends Arjun and Prabhnoor, who were accompanying him in the Mercedes. A resident of Chandigarh’s Sector-34/D, Samrat belongs from the family of Weldon Opticals in Chandigarh. Mohali Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Satinder Singh said that the three in the luxury car were drunk when the accident took place. They fled from the accident spot even after sensing the serious condition of victims and didn’t inform police or ambulance, he added.
The police have recovered empty bottles of liquor from the Mercedes, the senior police officer said, adding that Samrat did not even have a driving licence.
