Mumbai Woman Dies After Hit By Bike, Abandoned By Auto Driver On Way To Hospital

An elderly woman from Mumbai was killed in a road accident after she was hit by a bike and abandoned by an auto-rickshaw driver on the way to the hospital on May 30. The deceased was identified as 75-year-old Lakshmi Kamla Sayani, a resident of Kasturi Park in Borivali (West), and came from an underprivileged background. Her family contacted the police when she did not return home from her usual late-night stroll. Two days later, on June 1, the family was informed about an accident on the same night she went missing and the woman's body was found on the roadside in the Kaman area.

Woman's Family Finds Body Two Days Later

On June 1, Sayani's family was informed by local residents that there had been an accident on Dahisar overbridge on May 30, the same night that the elderly woman went missing. The family rushed from hospital to hospital in search of her, until the police called them to inform them that a body of the same description had been found on the roadside in the Kaman area.

Her grandson, Ganesh Jambule, reached the primary health centre’s post-mortem centre in Nalasopara and identified the body as his grandmother’s. After an inquiry, the police found that an unidentified biker had hit the woman in Dahisar and fled without helping her. She had sustained injuries to her head, limbs, and chest and was bleeding profusely.

Local residents requested an autorickshaw driver to take her to a hospital, however, he allegedly abandoned her on the roadside in Kaman on Bhiwandi Road in the Shillottar village, around 20 km away from the accident site. A police officer said if the biker or autorickshaw driver had helped the injured woman, she could have been alive now.

Jambule has registered a case with the MHB police under sections 304A (causing death by negligence), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), and 337 (causing hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) among others.