Kamal Ghorui
GURGAON: A 10-year-old girl on her way to school was critically injured after being hit and dragged by a speeding black Scorpio in a narrow residential lane of Adarsh Nagar in Sector 12 on Friday morning.Police said the victim, a Class VI student of a private school, was walking to school when the incident took place around 7.23am, barely 200 metres from her home.
The SUV, driven at high speed inside the narrow lane, allegedly went out of control and struck the girl, dragging her along and also hitting several motorcycles parked outside houses.The driver fled the spot with the vehicle soon after the accident. Local residents rushed to help the injured child and took her to a private hospital after alerting the police control room.An FIR has been registered against the unidentified Scorpio driver under sections 281 (rash driving) and 125 (act endangering life or personal safety of others) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Sector-14 police station on the complaint of the girl’s family.Police said the child sustained grievous head injuries and remains under treatment. CCTV footage of the incident has surfaced, capturing the entire accident. With the help of the footage, police are trying to identify the registration number of the vehicle and arrest the driver at the earliest.
