AHMEDABAD: A 68-year-old man from the Vasna area of city who was riding his motorcycle died after he was run over by a Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) bus plying between Ahmedabad and Rajpipla, near VS Hospital in the Ellisbridge area on Wednesday afternoon.
According to the FIR filed with M division traffic police, Kirtikumar Doshi, a resident of Lavanya Society behind Jivraj Mehta hospital in Vasna, was returning from Shahpur when the accident took place.
The deceased’s daughter, Jigna Doshi, 44, told cops that her father was retired.
At around 10am on Wednesday, Kirtikumar left home to go to Shahpur for some work on his motorcycle, she said,
“At around 1pm on Wednesday, an unknown person called me up from my father’s phone and said that my father had met with an accident near Kapadia Guest House,” said Jigna.
When she got there, she saw her father lying dead in pool of blood on the road with an ST bus parked nearby.
She alleged that the ST bus driver was driving negligently when he ran over Kirtikumar.
Cops of M division traffic police said Kirtikumar was riding parallel to the ST bus in heavy traffic and may have lost control over his vehicle and fallen on the road. The left rear tyre of the bus ran over him and he died on the spot.
M division traffic police registered a case of negligent driving causing death and began an investigation against the ST bus driver, who fled after the accident.
