Man dies in Delhi after Jaguar crashes while leaning out to spit pan masala

A 27-year-old man died from a road accident on Friday after his speeding Jaguar crashed into the divider on the Yamuna Expressway in Greater Noida.

Prashant Kasana, a resident of Kasana Towers in Sector Alpha 1 in Greater Noida succumbed to his injuries at Delhi’s Indraprastha Apollo Hospital on Friday. Prashant was reportedly returning from Jewar on Thursday evening when his car hit the divider of the express road. The accident is said to have occurred at around 6:00 pm.

He was immediately rushed to the Kailash hospital in a critical condition. His parents shifted Prashant to the Apollo Hospital in Delhi, where he breathed his last.

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“The victim was admitted to our hospital on Thursday night in a critical state. He was under constant observation and despite our best efforts, he breathed his last on Friday evening,” an Apollo Hospitals spokesperson was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times.

It has also been alleged that Prashant had leaned out of his car window to spit paan masala when his vehicle met with an accident.

According to the national daily, a staff of the Yamuna Expressway’s concessionaire told that he had seen the victim leaning out of the car window, just moments before the accident took place.

The witness named Mahaveer told, reports the daily, “It was around 6 pm when I saw the Jaguar, being driven at a high speed, and the driver leaning his head out to spit out paan. He lost control of the vehicle and it hit the central verge of the expressway before coming to a halt. My colleague and I pulled him out of the car and took him to Kailash Hospital in Greater Noida,”

The police, however, denied of receiving any such information form the doctors. “We received information about the accident only after 9 pm and a team was sent to remove the vehicle from the expressway. We have not questioned the family yet and no case has been filed,” Arvind Pathak, station house officer, Knowledge Park police station told the daily.

Doctors of the Kailash hospital confirmed that the victim has suffered severe head injuries and was kept in the intensive care unit of the hospital. A relative later told the daily that, doctors have said that Kasana’s brain did not recover and that could have led to his death.

“The victim was brought in around 6.15 pm and he was immediately shifted to the ICU. We kept him on ventilator support as he had sustained severe head injuries and a forearm fracture. Late night, the victim’s kin transferred him to Apollo Hospitals in Sarita Vihar, Delhi,” a representative of Kailash Hospital was quoted.