Accident Caught on Cam: Speeding Audi car smashes into auto, kills passenger

A video of rash driving by a man in a speeding car which smashed an auto-rickshaw and sent it spinning on the road amid heavy rainfall late in the night was posted by the Cyberabad police on its Twitter handle this morning.

A passenger in the auto lost his life on the spot after the mishap near Inorbit Mall in Madhapur area on Sunday, the police said, while the auto driver has been injured.

"Reckless speed and drunk driving of an Audi car kills a passenger (an employee of Prism Pub!!) in the auto yesterday early morning near Inorbit Mall," the Cyberabad police said on Twitter, while sharing the footage of the episode.

The passenger, identified as Umesh Kumar was a worker at city’s Prism Pub. He was on his way back home to Brgumpet, when the auto he was hit from behind by an Audi car.

Two 24-year-old men who were in the car at the time of the accident, Sujith Reddy and Ashish, have been taken into police custody. Sujith Reddy's father Raghunandan Reddy, who is the owner of the car, has also been arrested.

At first, officials identified Raghunandan Reddy as the owner of the car following which Mr Reddy's driver confessed to the crime. However, a probe by the police suggest that his son was involved.

Through the video and interrogation of Sujith Reddy, it was established that he and Ashish were intoxicated after coming back from a party and one of them was driving the car at high speed when it smashed into the auto.

According to Police official Ravinder Prasad, "The father hid his son and friend at a flat in DD colony and brought his driver Prabhakar to confess. But CCTV footage showed clearly two young men running out of the car after it stopped about 100 metres away, taking out the number plate and assaulting security men who tried to stop them. The driver (employee) is 55-years-old and the story did not match. So the father, son Sujith Reddy and his friend Aashish were arrested."

The auto driver, identified as Sreenu stated that it was his first passenger of the day in the early hours of Sunday and was going towards Begumpet. He said his auto-rickshaw was suddenly hit and it went into a spin near the Ikea crossing in Hyderabad.

"I was lucky to escape alive. My passenger who was about 37-years-old died. My auto is just about four months old. It is now smashed. I have three daughters. I have money to repay that I borrowed for financing the auto. How should we survive?" the auto-rickshaw driver said.

Earlier, a woman lost her life and five others were seriously hurt after a Mercedes SUV ran over a pedestrian and rammed an auto-rickshaw and other vehicles in Hyderabad's Old City area.

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