Speeding SUV Crash Injures Five Delhi University Students

Five college students were injured when their speeding SUV crashed into a guardrail in north Delhi. The accident occurred while they were returning from a birthday party in Gurugram. The incident resulted from the driver being distracted. Two students are in critical condition.

Five college students were injured when their speeding SUV crashed into a guardrail that pierced through the middle of the vehicle near Rajghat in north Delhi early Thursday, police said.

The Hyundai Venue car had five occupants, four of them students of Delhi University colleges, who were returning from a birthday party at a pub in neighbouring Gurugram. They have been hospitalised, police said.

Initial investigations suggest that the car was being driven at a high speed and the driver lost control, leading to the crash. The incident occurred on the stretch of road from Shanti Van to Geeta Colony.

Ashwani Mishra, 19, a first-year student at Delhi University's Dyal Singh College, had rented the car for the night to celebrate his birthday.

Mishra, along with Ashwani Pandey, 19, Keshav, 20, all residents of east Delhi's Laxmi Nagar, Krishna, 18, from Saket, and Ujjawal, 19, from Chhatarpur in south Delhi, drove to 'Zee Town,' a pub in Gurugram on Wednesday night.

On the return journey, Mishra was driving the car. ''While crossing the Geeta Colony flyover, Mishra got distracted while changing the song playing on his mobile phone and lost control of the vehicle. The car collided with the railing,'' the police said in a statement.

Among the five admitted to Delhi's Lok Nayak Hospital, the condition of Mishra and Pandey is critical, police said.

(With inputs from agencies.)