3 die as their bike hits ‘unmarked’ concrete barricades on GT Road

Three friends on a motorcycle returning from Haryana after dinner died after their bike hit concrete barricades placed around an under-repair stretch of the Grand Trunk Road in Libaspur early Wednesday.

- Hemani Bhandari

Officials found that no reflectors had been installed at the repair site at the time of the crash.

Deputy commissioner of police (outer north) Hareshway Swami identified the deceased as Sumit Sharma (27), Mohit (26) and his cousin Anurag (23), all residents of Nangloi. The trio were returning home from Murthal after dinner. “None of them was wearing a helmet,” he said.

The victims’ families, however, blamed the authorities for failing to install reflectors to alert commuters and help them manage their speed at the site.

HT contacted NHAI for a response on the absence of reflective tapes and warning signage at the repair site, but the authority did not comment.

Police said they received a call about the accident at 1:33am and found the trio lying unconscious next to their damaged Enfield Bullet. They were rushed to Burari Government Hospital, where doctors declared them brought dead. The bodies were later taken to the Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital mortuary for a postmortem.