Thaindian News

Ghaziabad, Sep 5 (IANS) Four students were injured, two of them critically, when a student who attempted to drive his friend’s car ran over them outside a school here, police said.

The injured, as well as the first-time driver, were students of the Vishesh Kendra Vidyalaya at the Kamla Nehru Nagar here.

According to police, a class 12 student of the school had come for the Teachers’ Day function at school in his father’s car. Afterwards, one of his friends asked him if he could drive and being allowed to do so, jumped into the driver’s seat.

Being a first-time driver, he was unable to control the car after accelerating it and ran over four students, waiting for a bus outside the main gate. They were dragged almost 50 m before the vehicle hit a tree and came to a stop.

Police reached the spot after receiving an emergency call from the school office. The four students were taken to the nearby Sarvodaya Hospital where the condition of two students - Class 10 student Hemlata, 15 and Class 1 student Gungun, 6, - was said to be critical.

Hemlata sustained a head injury and was still unconscious. A CT scan has shown clots inside the skull. “We are watching her condition carefully. She has not gained consciousness…. that is our main concern” said Dr. Manoj Jain of the hospital.

Gungun is also critical. She sustained a femur fracture and her lungs were found injured. “She might be put on life support system if the lung injuries become grave,” added Jain.

Hemlata’s brother and Class 9 student Pooran Singh, 15, sustained a fracture in his left hand and nose in addition to the head injuries. His condition is also serious.

The fourth victim, Ashish Rawat, a Class 6 student, sustained a fracture in his left elbow but is out of danger.

The student who brought the car has been detained, while a search is on for the student who drove the vehicle, said Superintendent of Police (City) J.K. Sahi