A speeding Fortuner SUV driven by thirty-six-year-old Viralbhai Savjibhai Chaudhary crashed into a roadside clothing stall in Ahmedabad's Nikol area, killing a woman and her fifteen-year-old son instantly while seriously injuring two others. Police arrested the driver at the scene and subsequently recovered six unopened beer cans from his vehicle, prompting a medical test to determine his blood alcohol concentration at the time of the collision. Law enforcement officials have registered a comprehensive case against the accused under various provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder and rash driving, alongside a separate filing under the Gujarat Prohibition Act.

A speeding Fortuner SUV driven by thirty-six-year-old Viralbhai Savjibhai Chaudhary crashed into a roadside clothing stall in Ahmedabad's Nikol area, killing a woman and her fifteen-year-old son instantly while seriously injuring two others. Police arrested the driver at the scene and subsequently recovered six unopened beer cans from his vehicle, prompting a medical test to determine his blood alcohol concentration at the time of the collision. Law enforcement officials have registered a comprehensive case against the accused under various provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder and rash driving, alongside a separate filing under the Gujarat Prohibition Act.

A speeding Fortuner SUV driven by thirty-six-year-old Viralbhai Savjibhai Chaudhary crashed into a roadside clothing stall in Ahmedabad's Nikol area, killing a woman and her fifteen-year-old son instantly while seriously injuring two others. Police arrested the driver at the scene and subsequently recovered six unopened beer cans from his vehicle, prompting a medical test to determine his blood alcohol concentration at the time of the collision. Law enforcement officials have registered a comprehensive case against the accused under various provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder and rash driving, alongside a separate filing under the Gujarat Prohibition Act.

Police have allegedly recovered six unopened beer cans inside the car of the driver who ran over a woman and her son with his Fortuner SUV in Ahmedabad.

The driver, Viralbhai Savjibhai Chaudhary, 36, was arrested shortly after the incident.

A medical test has been ordered to ascertain his blood alcohol level at the time of the crash.

Police officials said that the crash occurred near the Devashya School when a

The victims were identified as Poonamben Nagwadiya and her 15-year-old son Sagar Nagwadiya. They died on the spot. The family was selling clothes on a roadside in Ahmedabad’s Nikol area when the speeding Fortuner rammed into them.

Sagar and his mother succumbed to their injuries at the hospital.

Two others, identified as Kartick Vasoya, 34, and his wife Snehalben, sustained serious injuries and were rushed to a hospital for treatment.

Videos from the site showed residents and passersby rushing to help the victims.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic, East) Nareshkumar Kanzaria said that the accused was driving in a reckless and negligent manner at the time of the incident.

Police have registered a case against the accused under multiple provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder, rash driving and causing grievous hurt.

Police are investigating whether the accused was drunk at the time of the incident.

A separate case was also filed at Nikol Police Station under the Gujarat Prohibition Act following the recovery of alcohol from the vehicle.

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