KARACHI: Reckless driving claimed the lives of six citizens in different parts of the metropolis, with three victims dying in hit-and-run incidents and two bike-riders killed by trailers, police and rescue services officials said on Friday.

A young man was killed by a trailer on Mauripur Road on Thursday night. Mauripur SHO Chaudhry Aslam said that the deceased, Bashir Ahmed, 40, worked as a watchman of a hut at Hawksbay.

He was going in a Suzuki van, carrying material for a hut, when a trailer hit the van at a turning point near Muslim Kanta. The collision was so severe that Ahmed died on the spot. However, the drivers of both the trailer and the van managed to escape from the spot, leaving behind the vehicles that were taken into custody by the police.

In another incident, a 30-year-old man was killed while another man critically injured when a trailer hit their bike near Qayyumabad Bridge on Thursday night, said an Edhi Foundation spokesperson. The body and injured were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) where their identity could not be ascertained immediately.

Heavy vehicles run over, kill two in Mauripur and Qayyumabad

Meanwhile, an Edhi Foundation spokesperson said that two men were critically injured in an accident near Nasir Jump in Korangi on Thursday evening. They were taken to the JPMC where one of them, identified as Immanuel Shahbaz, 18, died during treatment on Friday afternoon.

DIG-Traffic Pir Mohammed Shah told Dawn that the newly established Karachi Road Accidents Analysis Team (Kraat) on Friday had started analysing the causes of the accidents and the first incident dealt by it pertained to the accident near Frere Hall.

He said a Bykea rider was carrying a passenger when an unknown vehicle hit them near the Japan Consulate on early Friday morning. The bike hit the footpath and both the motorcyclists fell and were badly injured. They were taken to the JPMC where the passenger was pronounced dead.

Civil Lines SHO Khan Mohammed Bhatti said the identity of the deceased could not be ascertained immediately while the condition of the Bykea rider was stated to be out of danger.

The DIG said that in another incident, a pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run incident in Liaquatabad late on Thursday night. Sharifabad SHO Mehar Yusuf identified the deceased as Mohammed Shahid. He said he was crossing the road when an unknown vehicle hit and killed him.

In yet another incident, a man riding a motorcycle was hit by an unknown vehicle on Northern Bypass. DIG Shah said a witness told the police that a bus was involved in the incident. Manghopir SHO Imran Ahmed Khan identified the deceased as Wali Deedar.

The DIG traffic said they categorise such accidents as rash and negligent. He said Kraat has started to analyse the causes of the accidents. It was a ‘pain-staking process’ to determine the causes of the fatal accidents, said DIG Shah.

Published in Dawn, March 15th, 2025