SURAT: Three persons of a family from Ankleshwar died in a gruesome car accident on national highway 48 in Valsad on Sunday night.
The car’s owner Altaf Kachwala, his wife Rafat, two children and his sister Tasneem Merchant and her two daughters and Kachwala’s friend Yogesh Patel and his family had gone to Daman over the weekend in two separate cars. While returning from Daman, Kachwala lost control of the car near Gundlav on NH-48 while overtaking a truck and rammed into a light pole.
Police said that while overtaking the truck, Kachwala changed lane at a high speed but as he lost control over the SUV, he first rammed into the truck then jumped divider and crashed into a light pole. The car was completely mangled but Patel and others on the highway helped bring the passengers out and called an ambulance.
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Surat: On April 18, when Vijay Patil succumbed to Covid-19 at Valsad Civil Hospital, the administration could not reach out to his family members immediately for his final rites and so tasked cops to find his family members for cremation.
However, when cops reached the address Patil had provided at the time of admission, the thatched house near Valsad city police station was found empty. Patil, a ragpicker used to live alone. With nobody to claim the body, police donned its humanitarian uniform and took up the task of giving the body a dignified send off it deserved. Valsad cops who have been tasked with finding kin of Covid dead, cremated Patil with all Covid protocols in place.