Click to play videoMumbai: A joyride gone horribly wrong in Mumbai. Eighteen-year-old Shivani Raut lost her life in a car crash, while six others are hospitalized. Police claims one of their friends was driving the car in an inebriated state.
The accident happened near an ATM, after the driver lost control and hit a tree, before ramming straight into a stationary autorikshaw.
Shivani Raut, along with 5 friends, was on a joyride in Mumbai's Santacruz area in the wee hours of Saturday. 23-year-old Rahul Mishra, who was driving the car, was allegedly under the influence of alcohol.
A critically injured Raut later succumbed to her injuries.
Sr PI, Santacruz Police Station Madhukar Chowdhary said, "They all are students. We have registered a case against Rahul Mishra for rash driving, driving under the influence of alcohol and culpable homicide not amounting murder.
No stranger to drunken driving, Mumbai had curbed the menace drastically in the last few years, but this latest incident will dent Mumbai Police's claims.
Mumbai Police, which had registered more than 11,000 drunk driving cases each year since 2008, has already registered well over 3,000 cases this year. And has suspended more than 38,000 driving licenses for drunken driving since 2007.
In 2010, an inebriated US National, Nooriya Haveliwala, crushed two people under her wheel. Two years on, this mishap is a brutal reminder of the menace of drunken driving.
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