Seafarer racing sports bike on Palm Beach Road in Navi Mumbai crashes into cab, severely injured

Navi Mumbai: A 37-year-old man working as a seafarer in Merchant Navy, while racing on his sports bike competing with his friends on the Palm Beach Road, was severely injured as he crashed into a cab at the junction of Moraj Circle at Sanpada on Thursday early morning around 3.20 am. The sports bike and the cab, a Maruti Suzuki Swift Dzire car, were badly mangled in the collision. Also, the cab driver escaped with minor bruises.

Acting on a complaint by the cab driver Deepak Singh, 43, a resident of Palghar, the Sanpada police registered an FIR against the accused biker Ali Raja Zabir Kalfe, who was booked under relevant sections of BNS and Motor Vehicle Act for reckless or negligent riding on public roads that endangers human life or safety and the offence of mischief, which involves intentionally or knowingly causing damage or loss to public or private property.

API Kamlakar Sontakke of Sanpada informed that the complainant cab driver Singh dropped a passenger at Nerul and was heading towards Sanpada to fill CNG at a fuel station opposite Sanpada police station and then further travel ahead to return to his Palghar home. As Singh took a right turn at Moraj Circle, Sanpada, on Palm Beach Road, the speeding biker heading towards Nerul crashed into the cab. The biker Kalfe was not fatally injured, as he was wearing a high-quality helmet. However, his sports bike was badly mangled due to the impact of the crash. The injured biker is admitted to Dr DY Patil hospital, Nerul, and the doctors have said that his condition is stable.

Devidas Kathale, senior inspector of Sanpada, said, “The sports bikers race on Palm Beach Road in the early morning hours when the traffic signals are switched off and there is no traffic. Despite traffic department taking legal action, this racing of sports bikes has not stopped and they are undeterred as the traffic cops are off duty in the early morning hours.”