Woman dead, eight injured as dumper crashes into parked vehicles

A woman died and eight other people sustained injuries when a speeding dumper rammed into vehicles parked along the Firdous Shopping Centre in Liaquatabad on Thursday.

Liaquatabad police station SHO Rao Shabbir told The News that the incident occurred outside the shopping centre when a dumper, bearing registration number TKX-329, rammed into vehicles parked outside the shopping centre.

The driver of the dumper has been arrested and the vehicle impounded, added the SHO. The injured were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for treatment, where the woman, identified as 30-year-old Ambreen, succumbed to her injuries; the condition of the others was declared to be out of danger, added the police station’s Head Mohrir Rao Rizwan.

The deceased was a resident of Ghas Mandi in Pak Colony; her body was handed over to her family. The injured were identified as 22-year-old Yasir, 25-year-old Naveed, 30-year-old Irfan, 26-year-old Hussain, 27-year-old Saqib, 45-year-old Ramzan and 30-year-old Liaquat.

Two cars, four motorcycles and a rickshaw were damaged in the incident. The cop added that the police were still waiting for a complainant to register a case against the dumper’s driver. The consequences of rash driving were highlighted just a month ago when two minors were killed in separate accidents on the same day, November 24.

On her way to school with her father, four-year-old Sakina was crushed to death and her father, Huzaifa, was hurt as two irresponsible bus drivers thought it fit to race through the busy MA Jinnah Road near the Mama Parsi Girls’ School. The other mishap was reported in Machar Colony in which 10-year-old Arbaz Khan was run over by a speeding water tanker.

Translator needed

Since the driver only speaks in Pashto, SHO Shabbir said the police have so far been able to understand his name and that he has been working as a driver for the past 20 years. He said the man has been responding to the investigators’ questions in Pashto and there is no one in his station who could translate it for them. The language barrier is causing a hindrance in beginning the investigation process, he stated. However, the SHO added that he has requested his team to look for someone who understands and speaks Pashto to translate the driver’s responses for the police.