The bike involved in the accident
Kolkata: A 30-year-old youth died and his friend was critically injured after their bike collided head-on with a car near Urbana in Anandapur early on Saturday. The accident took place around 4 am at the junction of Chowbhaga Road and Anandapur Road under Anandapur PS. Police have launched a search to identify and trace the driver.
Police said both were riding without helmets and were in an inebriated state while out pandal-hopping. The two were travelling along Chowbhaga Road towards Anandapur when their bike collided with an oncoming car as they turned towards Anandapur Road, according to police. Police said preliminary findings indicated that neither the biker nor his pillion rider was wearing a helmet. The circumstances leading to the collision are being probed,” said a senior officer of Kolkata Police.
Kumar, a resident of Gandhinagar in Godda district of Jharkhand, is an engineering student at Chowbhaga and was possibly returning to his college hostel when the accident happened. The driver of the car allegedly fled the spot, leaving the vehicle behind. “It seems both the men were intoxicated.