GUWAHATI, Nov 4: CCTV footage of the tragic road accident that killed two young persons, a 19-year-old girl and her 20-year-old male friend, have emerged in which a black car is seen crashing into the white car which was taking a U-turn.
The accident had took place around 3:40am on Diwali night (Nov 1) when the white Mahindra Scorpio bearing registration number AS-01EG-0820 was taking a U-turn near the foot overbridge while the second vehicle, also a Mahindra Scorpio bearing registration number AS-01-GB-6269 coming towards Ganeshguri, crashed into it.
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The impact of the crash was so devastating that the second car was reduced to a heap of mangled steel.
The shocking footage, meanwhile, has stirred a debate on social media with some blaming the white vehicle taking the U-turn of being at fault while many others said the black Scorpio driving at breck-neck speed should be held responsible for the accident.
Twenty-year-old Deepit Dey, who was at the wheels of the black Scorpio, and his female friend Kunamika Basumatary (19), died on the spot while another passenger, 19-year-old Niharike Basumatary, the third occupant of the vehicle fortunately survived.
The passengers of the white car also survived the crash without getting hurt.
