Indifference after traffic accident kills 75-year-old woman in Mumbai: First she is hit by a motorcyclist, then the driver abandons her on the way to hospital | Mumbai News

The 70-year-old woman’s family contacted police on May 30 when she did not return home from her walk. On June 1, local residents informed them that there had been a road accident on Dahisar Bridge on the same night the elderly woman disappeared and asked them to search for her in nearby hospitals.

The family checked almost all the public and private hospitals in the area but could not find her. In the evening, the family was informed by the Borivali police that the Naigaon police in Vasai had found the body of an old woman on the roadside in Kaman area.

Sayani’s grandson Ganesh Jambule reached the post-mortem centre of the health centre in Nalasopara and identified the body as that of her grandmother, MHB police said.

After a preliminary investigation, police found that an unidentified motorcyclist hit the woman in Dahisar and fled the scene without helping her. She sustained injuries on her head, hands, legs and chest and was bleeding profusely after the accident, they said.

Police said local residents put the woman in an autorickshaw and asked the driver to take her to a hospital, but he allegedly left her on the roadside at Kaman on Bhiwandi Road in Shillottar village, about 20 kilometres from the accident site, and fled.

Based on this finding, the MHB police, acting on the complaint of the woman’s grandson, on Tuesday registered a case under sections 304A (causing death by a rash or negligent act not amounting to manslaughter), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of an offence or giving false information to the offender), 279 (negligently driving or riding in a vehicle endangering human life), 337 (causing hurt to person by an act so rash or negligent as to endanger human life or personal safety of others) and 338 (causing grievous hurt to person by an act so rash or negligent as to endanger human life or personal safety of others) of the Indian Penal Code and 184 (dangerous driving) and 187 (offences of causing an accident) of the Motor Vehicle Act against the unidentified biker and the autorickshaw driver and charged them with Search for them started.

A police officer said if the biker or the autorickshaw driver had helped the injured woman, she might still be alive now.