Overview

• While traveling at more than 100 km/h on the Bilaspur–Raipur highway, driver Akash Chandani opened his door to spit gutka and lost control of the Innova.
• The vehicle struck a road divider, flipped multiple times, and collided with two parked vehicles, ejecting all three occupants.
• Thirty-one-year-old cloth merchant Jackie Gehi was killed when he was thrown into a metal structure, and Chandani along with front passenger Pankaj Chhabra suffered serious injuries.
• Drivers of two stationary vehicles were also hurt when the out-of-control Innova veered into their cars.
• Chakarbhata police have written to hospitals for intoxication reports and will proceed with a negligence FIR once the medical memo is received.