Brit couple Harish and Chandrakanta Solanki were leaving their hotel when a car left the road and mounted the pavement. The elderly couple was pinned against a wall by the rental car
A British tourist who was walking with his wife has been killed after a driver in a rental car lost control and pinned the couple against a wall. Harish Solanki, 86, was struck while holidaying in the town of Candolim in Goa, India, along with his 81-year-old wife Chandrakanta. The pair were both rushed to hospital with critical injuries.
Mr Solanki was later pronounced dead and his wife remains in hospital. The pair had just left their hotel compound shortly after 10am last Friday and were walking along the main road when the car veered towards them and crushed them with the force of the vehicle. Police say the car was a rental and was being driven at speed when the driver lost control of the car.
According to Calangute police they were rammed by a speeding rental car driven by 48-year-old Vicky Jain. Officers say the car veered on to the wrong side of the road after Jain lost control, before mounting the pavement and hitting the couple.
Mr Jain, a resident of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, has been arrested, police have said and the rental car he was driving was extensively damaged.
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Calangute police have registered an offence under various sections of the BNS against Jain for “driving his vehicle in a rash and negligent manner without taking proper care and caution”.
Police said Jain was going from Sinquerim to Calangute and near a popular Candolim restaurant, when he lost control of the car.
Back in September, the Mirror reported on a 96-year-old woman who avoided jail after becoming the oldest woman in the UK to be convicted death by dangerous driving.
June Mills told the court she “panicked” and mounted the curb in her Vauxhall Cora, hitting two people on the pavement and a stationary Jaguar, before rolling to a stop.
The elderly woman, who is too frail to walk more than a few paces, admitted in court that her driving was “far below standard” when she hit Brenda Joyce, who died after she sustained a serious head injury.
Ms Joyce, 76, was pronounced dead at the scene by medics, with another woman, aged 80, suffering minor injuries following the crash in Formby, Merseyside on August 2, last year. She was given an 18-month suspended sentence.
The court heard that Ms Joyce had died of multiple blunt force trauma after smashing her head on the windscreen of Mills’ car, before her body was dragged underneath the chassis.
Her friend, Jennifer Ensor, was also injured in the crash in Formby, Merseyside but survived. The court had previously heard Mills accidentally applied too much accelerator when she caused the accident.
She pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.