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High-Speed Gutka Spitting Triggers Fatal Innova Crash in Bilaspur

Police are awaiting hospital findings on potential intoxication to file a negligence FIR against Akash Chandani.

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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.