Gurgaon college student dies after car hits guardrail and falls 50 feet from flyover: police

Police said the car jumped over a four-foot barrier on the overpass and fell (representative)

Gurgaon:

A college student was killed and two of his friends were seriously injured when they hit a flyover guardrail and fell 50 feet below while traveling on the Delhi-Gurugram Expressway, police said on Tuesday.

The vehicle was severely damaged in the accident and the injured were undergoing treatment at Medanta Hospital here, they added.

According to police, the accident occurred around 10 pm on Monday when the three persons were traveling in a car from Delhi to Jaipur.

When the car reached the flyover at Jharsa Chowk, Rishabh Guleria, who was sitting on the driver’s seat, lost control of the vehicle. Police said the car jumped over a 4-foot-high barrier on the overpass and fell 50 feet below.

They said the three people inside the car were seriously injured even though the car’s airbags deployed.

The injured three were taken out of the car and taken to Medanta Hospital, where Mr Guleria (22), a resident of Sector 17, died during treatment on Monday night, police said.

His friends Kamal Sehrawat (23) and Naman (18) were undergoing treatment at the hospital, they added.

Mr. Guleria is a student of KR Mangalam University, Sohna Road. According to police, Mr. Sehrawat was studying law at Amity University and Naman was also a college student.

Investigators on the case said Mr Sehrawat, in his statement to the police, said they set out from Shuklali towards Manesar at around 9.30pm.

Serawat added that Mr Guleria was driving the car when he lost control of the vehicle, which collided with a guardrail, causing all passengers to collapse.

Mr. Guleriya’s body was handed over to his family on Tuesday after a post-mortem, the official said.

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