App biker in Kolkata hits car & flees, leaves behind injured rider
Times of India | 22 April 2025
The spot at Sukantanagar, where the accident occurred KOLKATA: A 26-year-old doctor, Aritra Karmakar of Amta rural hospital in Howrah, who suffered three fractures on his left leg following an accident on way back home to New Town on an app bike, was left writhing in pain in the middle of the road recently.
The app bike rider, who was allegedly riding the vehicle at a reckless speed, skipped a traffic signal and then crashed into a car at Sukantanagar last Wednesday. Not just that, when Karmakar—who lodged a police complaint at Bidhannagar South Police Station against the scooterist on Saturday — asked for help, the rider picked up the scooter, demanded payment right there and fled from the scene.
The occupants of the car, which the scooterist dashed into, came to the doctor's rescue and dropped him home. Karmakar was later hospitalised. He is currently under best rest. On the incident day, Karmakar was returning home after a night shift.
"My son worked all night and then took a drop at Kalighat for some personal work, from where he booked an app bike to return home around 8.40 am. The scooterist was riding at a high speed and swerving left and right in a dangerous manner despite my son asking him to slow down," said Ajay Karmakar, the doctor's father.
The father claimed while the two were riding along Salt Lake Bypass, the rider, in a bid to cross the Lohapool traffic signal at Sukantanagar, kept speeding to cross the signal while it was turning red from amber and crashed into a car. At the impact, Karmakar was flung off the vehicle, and the scooter fell on his left leg.
When other car drivers, as well as the owner of the car the scooterist dashed into, came over to check on the injured doctor, the rider fled the spot with his scooter, the complainant has alleged.
"When the car owner dropped him at our home, we took him to a nearby nursing home, where an attending doctor, following an X-ray test, confirmed three fractures. We then took him to another private hospital in Salt Lake and got his leg plastered. He has been asked to approach for another round of check-up 10 days later, when the doctors will take a call on whether he needs surgery to fix the fractures," said Ajay, a businessman by profession. In his complaint, Karmakar has submitted the registration number of the two-wheeler and the scooterist's name, as shown on the app.
"We are checking the CCTV footage. We have also reached out to the app bike platform . We are presently on the lookout for the rider," said a senior officer of the Bidhannagar City Police.