A 73-year-old woman on her morning walk was killed in a hit-and-run accident on Pune’s Pashan Road in the early hours of Saturday. Police said the woman was crossing the street and was suspected of having been hit by a pickup truck.
Officials at Chaturshrungi police station identified the deceased woman as Asha Vijaykumar Patil, 73, a resident of Abhimanshree Society on Pashan Road. The accident took place some distance from the main gate of the National Chemical Laboratory, in front of the Asara Temple.
“Our initial investigation suggests that Patil was on her morning walk and was crossing the road at that time. She was hit by a vehicle, whose driver immediately fled the scene without stopping to help her. There were a few people in the area, local residents on their morning walk. Some of them called the ambulance emergency numbers. She had sustained multiple serious injuries due to the impact and doctors declared her brought dead on arrival,” Assistant Inspector Amol Dhas said.
“There are no CCTV cameras around the exact location of the accident. Some people in the area have told us that the vehicle that hit Patil was a Tempo. We are looking at CCTV footage from nearby places and are in the process of identifying the Tempo,” he added.
The involvement of the truck will be confirmed once the vehicle is identified and detained along with its driver, the police officer said.
In the case, a First Information Report was registered based on a complaint filed by the woman’s son, Atul.
The police have invoked sections 106(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which relate to “causing death of any person by rash and negligent driving of a vehicle not amounting to culpable homicide, and escaping without reporting”, and 281 (rash driving on a public road), along with relevant provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act.