The live video from inside a BMW car speeding at 230 kilometres per hour (kmph) on Uttar Pradesh’s Purvanchal Expressway shows the last moments just before the vehicle crashed into a truck resulting in the death of all the four occupants of the luxury car.
पूर्वांचल एक्सप्रेसवे पर 230 की स्पीड से गाड़ी दौड़ाकर कहा- आज चारों मरेंगे pic.twitter.com/FqRI1ova0H
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The premonition of the impending disaster appears to have been tragically captured on camera with of the victims remarking: “charo marenge (all four of us will die)”, while doing a Facebook live showing the speedometer.
It also appears that one of the four friends were aiming to chase a speed of up to 300 kilometres per hour (kmph) and record the event when it rammed into a container truck coming from the opposite side and splintered into a a heap of scrap. The bloodied bodies of the four friends were strewn on the road.
Four occupants of BMW killed after head-on-collision with a truck on Purvanchal Expressway in #Sultanpur district.
Via @PathikritToi pic.twitter.com/89cHxaAtUt
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Dr Anand Prakash, a 35-year-old professor at a private medical college in Rohtas was driving the car while one of his friends can be heard pushing him to hit a speed of 300 km per hour.
Dr Prakash asked everyone to fasten their seatbelts and assured them he would speed up once he finds a long straight stretch on the road.
The victims have been identified as Anand Prakash, a resident of Dehri, Bihar, Akhilesh Singh, who was a realtor, Deepak Kumar, an engineer — both from Aurangabad, Bihar — and a businessman named Mukesh. All of them were in their mid-30s.
The truck driver, who has been charged with causing death due to negligence, fled the spot. Police have launched a manhunt to nab him.