75-yr-old dies after biker hits her, auto driver abandons her on way to hospital in Mumbai

On June 1, police told Sayani’s family to check for her in nearby hospitals after they were informed about a road accident on Dahisar overbridge the previous night. The family checked all public and private hospitals in the area but could not find her. In the evening, Borivali police informed the family about an elderly woman’s body on the roadside in Kaman area.

Sayani’s grandson Ganesh Jambule reached the primary health centre’s post-mortem centre in Nalasopara and identified the body as his grandmother’s, police said. After preliminary investigation, police found that an unidentified biker had hit the woman in Dahisar and fled. The woman was bleeding profusely from injuries to her head, hands, legs and chest, they said.

Local residents who came to help her put the woman in an autorickshaw and requested the driver to take her to a hospital. However, the autorickshaw driver allegedly abandoned the woman on the roadside in Kaman on Bhiwandi Road in the Shillottar village, around 20 km away from the accident site, and escaped.

The MHB police on Tuesday registered a case under sections 304A (causing death by doing any rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender), 279 (driving or riding a vehicle in a negligent manner, thereby endangering human life), 337 (causing hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life, or the personal safety of others) and 338 (causing grievous hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life, or the personal safety of others) of the Indian Penal Code, as well as section 184 (dangerous driving) and 187 (offences related to accident) of the Motor Vehicles Act against the unidentified biker and autorickshaw driver who are yet to be traced.