4 People Killed and 4 Injured by a speedy car in Mumbai

A speeding car ran over pedestrians and crashed into a restaurant wall in Mumbai killing 4 people and injuring another 4.

Police officials informed that the same car driver three months back got rammed into a truck though no injuries were reported then.

Of the four dead, three succumbed on the spot. The four have been identified as Saroja Naidu (65), Zubeda Abdul Khan (60), Saira Banu (60), and Mohamed Naeem (55). The four injured and the driver Diggy are under treatment at JJ hospital.

Asad Qureshi, a passerby, said sometime after 9 pm, he saw a white Maruti Esteem speeding towards the JJ flyover from Metro Cinema signal. It first hit two women near Sadanand hotel in Crawford market. “The car was at such a high speed, it dragged the two women till Cafe Janata, where it smashed into the wall,” Qureshi, a mobile shop owner, said. The car jumped onto the footpath before crashing into the restaurant’s wall. The impact was so strong that the entire wall collapsed.

Ameena Bibi, a local resident, said, “I saw the car’s bonnet hit Saira (deceased). She was dragged on this stretch of the road.”