Chennai: 17-year-old B E student behind wheel of Sedan injures woman

 

Luckily, the accident was not fatal and the woman escaped with injuries, said a police officer.  The 17-year-old boy riding the car was arrested and sent to a juvenile home while his friends were let out on bail. All three of them are engineering college students, police said.

 

The car was moving along the service road along the Marina beach and when it was near the Avvayar statue, the teen driver lost control of his vehicle and hit the conservancy worker, Suseela who was taking rest. The car came to a halt after knocking down four two wheelers parked along the stretch, said a traffic investigation official. 

 

Suseela was admitted to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital with injuries and is out of danger. 

Locals who witnessed the incident intercepted the vehicle and alerted the cops. Anna Square Traffic Investigation personnel rushed to the scene and seized the vehicle. Investigations revealed that the driver of the car, a first year mechanical engineering student, did not hold a license and the trio had come out on a fun ride. “A major accident was averted as they were not too fast,” said an investigating officer.

 

On Sunday (August 16), two school boys on a 1400 cc superbike, Kawasaki Ninja ZX14r hit a cyclist, Subarama Reddy on the Agaramthen-Camp road stretch killing him on the spot.