The menace of speeding vehicles returned to haunt Mumbai on Saturday night with a 25-year-old woman losing her life in a hit-and-run incident near Eastern Freeway. Neither the victim nor the vehicle had been identified till Sunday evening.
Police sources said the single eyewitness could not give any clue. The latest incident has taken place in the jurisdiction of the RCF police station, where corporate lawyer Jahnvi Gadkar rammed her car into a taxi nearly a month ago, killing two and injuring four others on the freeway. Ms. Gadkar was allegedly in an inebriated state at the time of the accident.
The police suspect that drunken driving could have caused Saturday’s incident too. Police sources said the hit-and-run victim, aged between 25 and 30, was lying injured around 9.30 p.m. “She was profusely bleeding and was taken to the nearby Rajawadi Hospital where she was declared brought dead. The body was sent for post mortem, the report of which is awaited,” said a police officer.
It is learnt that an eyewitness saw the car but could not recognise the colour, model or number.
Given that vehicles have to pass through the Eastern Freeway to enter Mahul village, the spot of the crime, the police are trying to compile a list of vehicles that passed through the Freeway during the period. The drivers of these north-bound vehicles would then be called for questioning.
