Biker dies while performing stunts on state highway
Ramgarh: A 27-year-old youth performing stunts on his sports bike on the Ramgarh-Patratu state highway flyover under the Basal outpost police station of Ramgarh district died after he lost control and hit a side guard on Sunday evening.
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Another youth who was riding pillion was critically injured in the accident. He was brought to a local hospital from where he was referred to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Ranchi.
Officer in-charge of Basal outpost police station, Kailash Kumar said, "The deceased was identified as Vicky Munda (27), and the injured youth is Karan Munda. Vicky was driving a sports bike at a high speed, and performing stunts, as informed by the locals, which caused the accident."
Youth performing stunts and racing on two-wheelers is a menace. The reckless behaviour of the youth not only puts their own lives at risk but also endangers the safety of others. Many of them also ride without helmets and engage in dangerous stunts, record videos of these and post them on social media platforms.
Ramgarh is connected with the Ranchi-Patna, Ramgarh-Bokaro national highway, and Ramgarh-Ranchi via Pithoria four-lane state highway, where bikers are often seen driving sports bikes at high speed, performing racing stunts.
A few days back, a youth was paraded in public by the police for performing deadly stunts on a motorcycle on the newly inaugurated Kartik Oraon (Siromtoli) flyover.
Many such stunts by biker youths have proved to be fatal. Nineteen-year-old Ayaz, son of MP and former Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin, died after being involved in a motorcycle crash in 2011. Ayaz, a promising young cricketer in the making, met with the fatal accident when he was on a joy ride on his brand new imported bike along the Outer Ring Road of Hyderabad. He was with his friends for racing. It is believed that he received multiple internal and external injuries when he fell off his bike that he drove at a speed of 200 km.
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