Two Killed After SUV Driving On Wrong Side Rams Into Bike Taxi; Victims Flung 15-20 Feet

Last Updated:April 05, 2026, 08:52 IST

SUV crash kills bike taxi driver and passenger; police seize vehicles and file negligence and rash driving case.

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A 26-year-old bike taxi driver and his 24-year-old passenger lost their lives after a car driving on the wrong side collided with them on Dharm Marg in Sector 57, Gurugram, in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

The victims were identified as Ritik Kumar, a native of Bihar’s Motihari who lived in Sector 17, and Kartik Suresh, a college student residing in Sector 60. According to investigators, the crash occurred between 2 am and 2.30 am near the entrance of The Legend Society.

Suresh was returning from a friend’s birthday party and had booked a bike taxi when a black Tata Harrier with a Uttar Pradesh registration entered from Golf Course Extension Road on the wrong side and rammed into the scooter. Two occupants were inside the SUV. The passenger was about four kilometres from home when the fatal crash happened.

‘Scooter Broke Into Two Halves’

The impact of the crash was to the extent that it threw both victims 15 to 20 feet, leaving them critically injured. Police said the collision was so severe that the scooter broke into two halves, with debris scattered across nearly 100 metres. The SUV was also damaged, and its driver and passenger fled without offering help.

“Some commuters spotted the victims and alerted the police control room after which police reached the spot from Sector 56 police station. Looking at the situation, they arranged private ambulances and rushed them to two separate hospitals,” a senior officer told Hindustan Times.

Kumar, who balanced a private job with night shifts as a bike taxi rider, was taken to a hospital in Sector 51 where he was declared dead on arrival. While Suresh was admitted to the Civil Hospital in Sector 10A but died within an hour. “My son had left home on Friday night to attend birthday party of a friend,” stated the deceased’s passenger’s father, Mathur Shankara Narayan Suresh, in the complaint, adding that he identified his son through photographs shown at the spot.

Police spokesperson Sandeep Turan said both vehicles were seized, and the driver would be apprehended soon. “An FIR was registered under sections 106 (causing death by negligence) and 281 (rash driving) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Sector 56 police station,” he said. Further, no liquor or suspicious substance was found in the SUV, police added.

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