In another incident of drunk-and-drive, an auto-rickshaw driver was killed in Chennai early on Monday morning after being hit by a Porsche car driven by a drunk law student.
Vikas Vijaynand, 22, son of a Supreme Court lawyer, has been arrested by the police. He was with a friend and both were returning from a party on Sunday night. One of the auto driver-29-year-old G Arumugam-was killed on the spot. His seven-year-old daughter has been orphaned as she lost her mother recently. “Tough action should be taken against rich people who drink and drive. My brother lost his wife and child recently now his other child is an orphan,” said G Vinayagam, Arumugam’s brother.
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“I heard a screeching noise of brakes…that’s all. My chest was hurting and I went blank. I realized what had happened only when the police came… they only helped the car driver and took him away,” said Sundar, one of the drivers who witnessed the accident and was also injured.
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