Driver held after VMC garbage van mows down 6-year-old boy

The driver of a door-to-door garbage collection van of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) was arrested on Thursday after a six-year-boy died under the wheels of the vehicle in Shamim Park Society in Tandalja area earlier in the day.

According to police, the garbage was on its daily round of collection when the boy who was playing near his house came under the vehicle while it was reversing. The boy was rushed to hospital and the driver, Anil Garwal, 22, was arrested.

Assistant Commissioner of Police, D Division, AV Rajgor said, “The incident was unfortunate, where the driver reversed the van without checking properly… The child, who was with his father, was crushed under the wheels and died on his way to the hospital. There is a definite case of negligent driving and death caused due to negligence… The driver has been taken into custody.”