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2 killed as BMW crashes into divider near Mumbai, viral video shows convertible clocking ‘251 kmph’
Police probing if viral clip showing 251 kmph speed on dashboard by deceased was from this trip
A viral video of a dashboard showing a vehicle reaching speed of 251 kmph. (Instagram screenshot)
Two persons including a girl from Bandra died while another suffered serious injuries after a BMW convertible alleged to be going at high speed hit a divider at the Mumbai – Vadodara highway in Badlapur and was flung off the road early on Sunday.
The trio were returning after celebrating the birthday of Yogesh Negi, who turned 24 on Sunday, when the incident took place.
The police are checking if a now-viral video of a dashboard showing a vehicle reaching speed of 251 kmph was from this incident.
Senior inspector of Badlapur (west) police station Kishore Shinde said that the incident took place around 3 am when Negi, Angad Gill (26) and Rebecca Jacob (24) were returning from a party celebrating Negi’s birthday when they lost control of the vehicle. The car, which had its hood down, flipped several times in the air before falling to the ground.
While Negi and Jacob succumbed to their injuries, Gill is currently recuperating at the Fortis hospital in Kalyan. The officer said that while Negi and Gill are Badlapur residents, Jacob resided in Bandra.
“It is not clear who was at the wheel. We have found that Negi had uploaded a video of the speedometer of a car touching 251 kmph at one point. We are verifying if this was taken moments before the car met with an accident,” Shinde told The Indian Express. The officer said that the road where the accident took place was under construction and there were no street lamps. The road had not been opened to the public, the officer said.
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