Kolkata:
A 42-year-old girl died after dropping management of her automobile whereas practising driving and plunging the car right into a pond in Kolkata on Wednesday.
The incident occurred within the Prafulla Kanan (West) space of Kolkata’s Kestopur. An area resident mentioned that the lady, Sumitra Das, had simply returned after dropping her daughter off at college on a scooter. She parked the scooter, took her Hyundai Eon out of the storage, and got down to apply driving, throughout which the automobile plunged right into a pond.
The automobile submerged fully within the water, and regardless of all efforts to save lots of her, Sumitra couldn’t be rescued and drowned. After a rescue operation lasting over an hour, the fireplace division and police staff retrieved the automobile from the pond.
Because the automobile emerged from the water, Sumitra’s physique was discovered contained in the automobile along with her face in the direction of the rear hatch and her legs close to the steering wheel, suggesting that she may need tried to flee whereas the automobile was drowning.
Sumitra’s husband, Krishnendu Das, had lately bought the automobile, and Sumitra was practising for a driving licence take a look at scheduled for August 22, police sources mentioned. As a novice driver, she by accident pressed the accelerator as a substitute of the brake, inflicting the automobile to hurry into the center of the pond, the sources added.
Sumitra’s physique was despatched to a authorities hospital for a autopsy examination, and the police have initiated an instantaneous investigation into the incident.
