Highlights
- All four occupants, Anand Prakash, Akhilesh Singh, Deepak Kumar, Bihar, and Bhola Kushwaha died on the spot.
- In another video that has surfaced online, following the accident, the BMW can be seen cruising at well over 200kmph on the Expressway.
- In the video, the person sitting next to the driver, who is also doing the Facebook live, can be heard instigating the person behind the wheel to go faster.
A video has emerged on social media showing moments before the fatal crash on the Sultanpur on the Purvanchal Expressway on Friday that killed all four occupants of a BMW.
In the video, one of them can be heard saying in a Facebook live that “all four of us will die”, moments before their BMW crashed into a container truck on the Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur on Friday.
All four occupants, Anand Prakash, Akhilesh Singh, Deepak Kumar, Bihar, and Bhola Kushwaha died on the spot.
BMW was flying on the road before crash
The BMW was owned by Dr. Anand Prakash, a 35-year-old professor in a private medical college in Bihar’s Rohtas.
The four men had left Dehri on Friday morning on Dr. Prakash’s BMW. They were driving recklessly and cruising at dangerous speeds on the road, before the fatal crash.
In another video that has surfaced online, following the accident, the BMW can be seen cruising at well over 200kmph on the Expressway.
‘We should hit 300kmph’
At one point the car was traveling at 230 kmph, and the four men were eager to show their achievement on Facebook live.
In the video, the person sitting next to the driver, and is also doing the Facebook live, can be heard instigating the person behind the wheels to go faster.
The BMW which was traveling at just over 100kmph when the video started goes all the way up to 230kmph in a matter of a minute.
The person making the video can be heard saying that they should touch ‘at least 300kmph’.
BMW left crushed in the accident
According to a senior official, the intensity of the accident was so high that all four people and the engine of the luxurious car fell far away. The head and hands of one of the occupants were found about 20-30 meters away. The luxurious car is seen totally in a mangled condition.
Overspeeding accounted for more than 50% of road accident deaths
The expressway, connecting Lucknow to Ghazipur district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November 2021, ahead of the Assembly elections in February-March.
According to National Crime Records Bureau data, over 1.55 lakh lives were lost in 4,03,116 road accidents in India in 2021 — an average of 426 daily or 18 every single hour.
Overspeeding accounts for 58.7 percent of the total accidents, while dangerous/careless driving or overtaking comprised 25.7 percent.
