Student killed, eight injured in crash on Nuh expressway

A 21-year-old IGNOU student from Delhi was killed and eight others, including three members of her family, critically injured when a speeding car crashed into theirs on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Nuh, while attempting to catch up with a second car ahead, police said on Friday.

- Debashish Karmakar

GURUGRAM:

The deceased was identified as Nitika Kumari, a resident of Shakurpur in north Delhi. The five occupants of the other car, a Maruti Suzuki Brezza, were injured. The accident took place at around 4 pm on Wednesday.

"Nitika, her sister Himani, 25, brother Vishesh, 16, and uncle Sanjay Mandawat, 45, were returning after dropping a relative in Alwar, Rajasthan. Mandawat had slowed down his Datsun Go along the expressway as Nitika was feeling nausea due to motion sickness. It was at this moment that the Brezza rear-ended their car," said Ombir Singh, SHO of Ferozepur Jhirka police station.