Navi Mumbai: In a hit-and-run incident on the Mahape-Shilphata stretch of road, a 21-year-old youth riding a bike was killed by an unidentified container trailer that dashed into his bike and ran over the biker after the bike skidded on the road. His friend, riding pillion, sustained severe injuries.The fatal accident occurred near LTI Mindtree company at Shilphata, when the duo was riding from Mahape towards Thane on Monday past midnight, around 12.10 am. The deceased youth was identified as Durgesh Ganesh Bhagat, a resident of Diva (E), Thane, and his injured friend as Nikhil Nathuram Thetgure (21), a resident of Kurla. Acting on a complaint by Thetgure, an FIR was registered at Turbhe police station against an unidentified driver of the container truck, against whom BNS sections and the Motor Vehicle Act was invoked for rash and negligent driving on public way and causing death and injury to a person, as the accused sped away by neither informing the police nor providing medical help to the injured youths.Sunil Shinde, senior inspector of Turbhe said, “The CCTV camera footages along the Mahape-Shilphata road will be scanned to get some lead of the suspect container trailer.”
