Unidentified pedestrian killed by speeding motorcycle on Gondpipri-Ashti road; rider booked

An unidentified man walking on the road died after being hit by a speeding motorcycle in the Gondpipri police station area of Chandrapur district. The accident took place on Sunday, November 8, at about 5.30 pm on the Gondpipri-Ashti highway, in front of Kanyaka Rice Mill, within the limits of Surgaon.

A case was registered at Gondpipri police station on the morning of November 9, 2026. Police have begun legal action against the motorcycle rider. The deceased has not yet been identified. Police said the investigation is under way and the allegations will become clear only after it is complete.

The complainant is police constable Munneshwar Itwarilal Ratre. He was at the police station when the accident happened and received a phone call about a crash on the highway near Kanyaka Rice Mill. When he reached the spot, a man lay seriously injured on the road. A Royal Enfield Classic motorcycle without a number plate lay fallen some distance away. Eyewitnesses at the spot, Tanveer Hanumantu Penshtiwar (resident of Bhangaram Talodhi) and Someshwar Deorao Bawane (resident of Gondpipri), narrated the incident to police.

According to the eyewitnesses, a man was walking towards Gondpipri from the direction of Vitthalwada. A Royal Enfield motorcycle without a number plate, carrying two people, came at high speed from behind him, also from the direction of Vitthalwada. The rider is alleged to have driven fast and negligently and to have hit the pedestrian hard. After the impact, the rider lost control of the motorcycle, which crashed on the other side of the road, injuring the rider as well.

When asked his name after the accident, the rider gave it as Sameer Nitin Kakade. He is 22 years old and a resident of Vitthalwada, Gondpipri tehsil, Chandrapur district. Relatives took the injured rider and the pillion rider for treatment in a private vehicle.

The seriously injured unidentified man lying by the roadside was immediately taken in a 108 ambulance to the Rural Hospital, Gondpipri, where the medical officer declared him dead after examination. As he was unknown, he could not be identified for a long time.

On constable Ratre's complaint, police registered a case against the rider of the Royal Enfield, Sameer Nitin Kakade, under Sections 281 and 106(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023 and Section 184 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Sub-inspector Devaji Vithobaji Nikhade is carrying out further investigation.