A 22-year-old man was killed after his modified Volkswagen Virtus, allegedly travelling at around 200 kmph, crashed into a wall inside the Dwarka Expressway airport tunnel, police said on Thursday. The speed limit inside the tunnel is 80 kmph. The impact ripped the engine out of the vehicle and triggered a fire.
The victim, Abhinav Singh, a native of Muzaffarpur in Bihar who lived in Sector 42, Gurugram, was driving a car belonging to a friend. He had gone to Ludhiana to meet his girlfriend and was returning to Gurugram on Diwali morning when the accident occurred near the Shiv Murti interchange. Police said CCTV footage from the tunnel showed the car travelling at very high speed before it crashed near a turn connecting the tunnel to National Highway 48. Singh was trapped inside the mangled vehicle and died at the scene.S1
Initial investigation found that Singh had allegedly recorded videos and photographs of the car's speedometer and sent them to friends through Snapchat shortly before the crash, and police are trying to retrieve that material. Police have recorded the statements of security personnel deployed at the tunnel, as well as other motorists and eyewitnesses. The Delhi Police is investigating the accident, and Singh's body was sent for post-mortem examination before being handed over to his family.S1
The tunnel's rules prohibit two-wheelers, auto-rickshaws, tractors, non-motorised vehicles and tankers carrying inflammable substances from entering it.S1
