Bengaluru multi-vehicle accident: 6 students out for joyride die on spot after SUV at 150–160 kmph rams biker, rips through truck in Hoskote crash

Seven people, including school and college students, were killed in a horrific multi-vehicle accident involving an SUV and a bike in the early hours of Friday near Hoskote on the outskirts of Bengaluru, police said. Police said the six students in the SUV were headed from Devanahalli from Hoskote when, near Kambalipura Gate, Ayan, who was reportedly driving the vehicle at 150-160kmph, lost control of the vehicle and rammed the bike driven by Gagan, who died at the spot. The motorcycle rider was returning home after completing his night shift at a private company. According to the police investigation, the six students were on an early morning joyride in an XUV without informing their families.

The students were out for an early morning joyride, but soon it turned into a 'tragedy' when the speeding SUV was reduced to a mangled heap of metal and shattered glass on Friday, reports TOI's H M Chaithanya Swamy. As if this was not enough, after hitting the bike, the SUV rear-ended a moving truck and in just fraction of seconds, the Dobbaspet-Hoskote Satellite Town Ring Road (STRR) was transformed into a chilling scene of devastation. Police said the accident occurred between 4.15 am and 4.30am. The truck driver sustained minor injuries.

A senior police officer told TOI the SUV was mangled with all its six occupants found dead inside the vehicle. The deceased were identified as Ahram Sharif, 16; Ashvin Nayar, Eethan George, Ayan Ali, Bharath – all 17 years old; Mohammed Farhan Shaik, 18; and Gagan, 26. Gagan, the biker, was the sole breadwinner for his mother, who is visually impaired, as per IANS.


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Brezza collides with multi-vehicle pile up

The SUV travelling from Hoskote towards Devanahalli rammed a motorcycle from behind at high speed. After the initial impact, the driver reportedly lost control and crashed into a canter truck ahead.

The collision was so severe that it snapped the canter truck’s axle, causing the vehicle to overturn onto the service road. Amid the chaos, another car hit the dislodged axle and briefly got entangled in the debris, triggering a multi-vehicle pile-up. Fortunately, no injuries were reported in that car, while the canter driver sustained only minor injuries and managed to escape.

The car was damaged and its two occupants suffered minor injuries. Chandrakanth MV, SP of Bengaluru Rural, told TOI: “After hitting the truck, the SUV crashed into a crash barrier and scraped against it for almost 150m before coming to a halt.”

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SUV crossed the posted limit

According to TOI, the posted speed limit on STRR is 100 kmph. Despite the presence of CCTV cameras and speed radars along the highway, officials were unable to immediately obtain specific footage of the crash. Balasubramani, the driver of the truck that was rear-ended by the SUV, said the impact was sudden and severe. “The road was calm and I was moving steadily in my lane when my vehicle was hit from behind and toppled within seconds. I lost consciousness,” he said.

When he came to and looked around from the overturned truck, he was stunned by the scale of the destruction. “The force of the collision was so intense that my truck’s axle and the entire housing were torn apart. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” he said from his hospital bed.

Initially, the parents were informed that their children had been seriously injured in the accident. However, when they arrived at the hospital, they learned about the deaths and were left inconsolable. Family members of Arhaan Sharif said that he did not even know how to ride a bike forget about driving a car. “He left home and never returned,” they said.

(With TOI inputs)