The investigation into the highway accident the place a 26-year-old probationary IPS officer, Harsh Bardhan, died in Karnataka’s Hassan district has revealed that the police jeep he was travelling in did have airbags however they didn’t open when the car overturned.
Harsh Bardhan, a Karnataka-cadre IPS officer from Madhya Pradesh, died after the police jeep toppled a number of occasions earlier than crashing onto a coconut tree round 4 pm on Sunday on the Holenarasipura-Hassan highway.
Constable Manjegowda was driving the jeep whereas Harsh Bardhan was sitting subsequent to him within the entrance seat. Bardhan succumbed to the accidents 4 hours after the incident. On Monday, the physique was handed over to his relations after a postmortem.
A police officer mentioned the car bearing the registration quantity KA-13G 1386 is a 2020-model jeep and that it did have airbags for each entrance seats. Nevertheless, when the jeep toppled they didn’t open. Consultants say the airbags open when a crash occurs in a sure manner.
“A report will probably be submitted quickly. On prime of it, we now have discovered that the jeep most likely was rushing at 70-80 km/hr however we’re ascertaining why the jeep drifted in direction of the left facet of the highway. Each occupants have been sporting seatbelts. There was no tyre burst that would have led to the incident,” the officer added.
Hassan MP Shreyas Patel mentioned he would take up the problem to make sure the standard and security of police autos.
It may be recalled that former Tata Sons chairperson Cyrus Mistry died in a highway accident in September 2022 when the Mercedes he was travelling in hit a concrete barricade. Although there have been seven airbags, none of them opened. Investigations revealed that Mistry was not sporting a seatbelt when the incident happened.
Dr Abdul Basheer V Okay, president of Janapriya Hospital, mentioned that Harsh Bardhan was in a foul state when he was delivered to the hospital.
“We tried our greatest to avoid wasting Harsh Bardhan however the harm was extreme. A whole lot of medical doctors from different components of the nation reached out to me to counsel the remedy. He died due to diffuse axonal injury.”
Diffuse axonal injury is when the mind shifts or rotates contained in the cranium, inflicting the nerve fibres (axons) to tear.
The police have booked a case after Rohith Kumar H, a villager who witnessed the incident, filed a grievance. They’ve booked the driving force of the jeep, Manjegowda, underneath sections 281 (rash driving), 125 (a) (endangering life or private security of others by inflicting harm) and 125 (b) (endangering life or private security of others by inflicting grievous harm) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). He’s present process remedy.
It was like a film scene: eyewitness
Native villagers who witnessed the accident mentioned the jeep was rushing and hit a coconut tree, stopping it from falling right into a home.
Santosh, a youth from Kittanegadi village, mentioned he was together with his buddies Puneeth and Rohith when the incident happened. “All of it occurred in a number of seconds. The police jeep that was heading rightwards all of a sudden drifted in direction of left and hit cement pillars (barricades) and toppled for almost three or 4 occasions for 40 metres earlier than hitting the coconut tree,” he mentioned.
Santosh mentioned he, alongside together with his buddies and different villagers, rushed to the spot. “We dragged each occupants. We referred to as an ambulance and likewise knowledgeable the police. At that time, we didn’t know that it was an IPS officer however he was severely injured on his head,” he added.
Santosh additionally mentioned the tragedy may have worsened if it was a working day. “The coconut tree that the jeep hit is close to a bus cease and there could be some villagers and youngsters normally at 4 pm. Because it was a Sunday, there have been none on the place,” he mentioned.
