A 3-year-old boy from Vijayapura was killed by an autorickshaw when he was crossing the road. The incident took place in the Basavana Bagewadi taluk in Karnataka’s Vijayapura district.
CCTV footage shows four persons including the boy walking across the road. But the toddler suddenly dashes across unaccompanied, when an autorickshaw fails to break, colliding into the boy. It drags him a few metres, before it comes to a halt. The three-year-old identified as Bheemangauda M died on the spot. Visuals show onlookers rushing to the spot to help the boy, who was killed.
A complaint has been filed with the Basavana Bagewadi police who are yet to nab the driver responsible for the accident. However, an FIR has yet to be registered, according to the police. Police say the boy was playing on the side of the road when he ran across.
Several people took to protesting on the road, demanding for speed breakers to be fixed on the road to prevent such accidents from occurring. Officials from the Public Works Department (PWD) went to the protest site to assess the situation.
Earlier in September, a video of a toddler who fell out of a moving jeep and crawled himself to safety was caught by CCTV cameras. The incident took place in Kerala’s Idukki district when the girl’s family was travelling from Palani in Tamil Nadu. After falling out of the jeep, she can be seen crawling across the road to a safe spot on the side. As per reports, an employee at a nearby checkpost noticed the baby on the road and picked her up.
The child was later reunited with her family by officials of the forest department. The family had been travelling from Palani to their residence in Kerala when the incident occurred. They were nearing their home in Kambilikandam when they noticed that the child was not in the jeep.