PUNE (India): In a strange twist of fate, a moped rider was killed in a head-on collision with a motorcycle driven by his own son at the Pirangut ghat section of the Pune-Paud road around 8 pm on Wednesday.
The deceased has been identified as Laxman Kudle (46), a resident of Khatpewadi, a hamlet in the interiors of Bhukum grampanchayat of Mulshi taluka. Sagar (21), who sustained injuries on the chest and legs is recuperating in a private hospital. He was not told, for obvious reasons, till Friday evening, that the man he knocked down was his own father.
Ironically, Kudle’s relatives, who rushed to the hospital to enquire about Sagar’s condition, were not even aware that the body of the youth’s father was kept in an adjacent room of the hospital until one of them went to check out of curiosity. “After about an hour, when one of the relatives went to check who the deceased was, he got the shock of his life when he discovered it was Sagar’s father,” Vijay Mazire, a local resident who helped rush Sagar to the hospital told TOI.
When TOI visited Kudle’s home at Khatpewadi, his younger brother Sopan Kudle said that on the day of the incident, Laxman was working in the fields till 4 pm. “Soon after, he left for Pirangut, a few kilometres away from his village, on his moped to meet his married daughter Sheetal. It was also the day of Urs (a local festival) in Pirangut.”
The deceased has been identified as Laxman Kudle (46), a resident of Khatpewadi, a hamlet in the interiors of Bhukum grampanchayat of Mulshi taluka. Sagar (21), who sustained injuries on the chest and legs is recuperating in a private hospital. He was not told, for obvious reasons, till Friday evening, that the man he knocked down was his own father.
Ironically, Kudle’s relatives, who rushed to the hospital to enquire about Sagar’s condition, were not even aware that the body of the youth’s father was kept in an adjacent room of the hospital until one of them went to check out of curiosity. “After about an hour, when one of the relatives went to check who the deceased was, he got the shock of his life when he discovered it was Sagar’s father,” Vijay Mazire, a local resident who helped rush Sagar to the hospital told TOI.
When TOI visited Kudle’s home at Khatpewadi, his younger brother Sopan Kudle said that on the day of the incident, Laxman was working in the fields till 4 pm. “Soon after, he left for Pirangut, a few kilometres away from his village, on his moped to meet his married daughter Sheetal. It was also the day of Urs (a local festival) in Pirangut.”
