[kellyhound]

The Madhapur police have released the video of the incident which shows the Audi speeding on the rain-drenched road and hitting an auto, sending it into an uncontrollable spin. While the passenger in the autorickshaw died on the spot, the driver was seriously hurt.

The father of the driver of a speeding Audi car, which killed a passenger travelling in an autorickshaw in Hyderabad on Sunday, tried to put the blame on his family driver who was not in the car at the time of the accident, police said on Tuesday.

Father R. R., whose son S. R, 24, was driving the black Audi that rammed into the autorickshaw brought his family driver to the Madhapur Police Station and claimed he was driving the car.

Besides S. R, R. R. and S’s friend A. R. (24) were in the car. They were returning home from an all-night party. All three have been arrested.

The father tried to mislead us, but we have CCTV footage from various places which show that his son S. R. was driving the car. When we confronted him and questioned him strongly, he confessed.

After speeding away without stopping, he had asked his son and the other passenger, A. R, to hide in a flat. We have arrested the father as he lied and tried to mislead us,’’ Madhapur Police said.

The police also said that S. and A. threatened the eye-witnesses — a security guard and a labourer from a nearby under-construction building, soon after the accident, removed the number plates from the car and fled the place. They went into hiding as police began an inquiry into the accident.

S. is a construction management graduate. The deceased autorickshaw passenger has been identified as B. who worked as a captain at Prism Pub in Gachibowli.

Officials at Madhapur Police Station in Cyberabad Police Commissionerate had traced the Audi that is registered in the name of R. R, who, however, came to the police station on his own along with the family driver.

The Madhapur police have released the video of the incident which shows the Audi speeding on the rain-drenched road and hitting the auto, sending it into an uncontrollable spin.

S.and A. were caught 24 hours after the incident, their blood samples were sent for a test to ascertain if they were driving under the influence of alcohol. “We have collected footage from the liquor store as well as statements from eye-witnesses,” he said.

Police have booked the two youngsters on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, endangering human life, criminal intimidation, and causing disappearance of evidence under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Motor Vehicles Act.

The father has been charged with harbouring offenders, omitting information, and false personation.

This is the second drunk driving and hit and run case in the last 10 days involving a luxury car. On June 24, three youths in a Mercedes Benz on a joy-ride crashed the vehicle into several two-wheelers and autorickshaw and crushed a 70-year-old woman to death.

Twenty-year-old M. A. and two minors who parked the car at A’s home and hid for two days at a relative’s house who tipped off the police.

[William May]

Self-entitled assholes.

[thckoitin]

Woo-hoo, from the tuk-tuk to the carousel!!

[minka1]

Why would the passenger be held accountable for this though? They weren’t driving! The only thing I’d guess would be appropriate for arrest and charge, is fleeing the scene of an accident.