Car jumps lane, teen dies in #Ghaziabad pile-up

Ghaziabad: Motorists abruptly switching lanes and taking sudden turns endanger lives every day on NCR roads. On Sunday, this habit claimed a teenaged boy’s life as a Santro that suddenly swerved into a truck’s path led to a pile-up at the foot of Ghaziabad’s ALT flyover.

The boy, Class IX student Manav Shukla, was thrown off the pillion seat of his friend’s scooter that was among several vehicles that crashed into each other, some into the rear of the truck that had braked to avoid the swerving Santro.

The pile-up involved two trucks, a Santro, an Estilo and the scooter in which 14-year-old Shukla and his friend Prakhyat Srivastava (also 14) were returning home from tuition classes. Police said neither boy was wearing a helmet and Shukla might have come under the wheels of the other truck.

Srivastava, who suffered minor injuries, rushed his friend to the nearest private hospital in Raj Nagar in an auto. “Shukla was critical by the time he was brought,” said a spokesperson for Shivam Hospital. “He succumbed to his injuries after an hour. Srivastava sustained injuries on his chin and left hand.”