Jet Airways employee hit by ambulance at IGI

AIRPORT DEATH: Thirty-one-year old Sanjeev Kumar became a victim of reckless driving on the IGI tarmac.

ibnlive.com is on mobile now. Read news, watch videos
be a Citizen Journalist. Log on to m.ibnlive.com NOW!

Related Stories

Top Headlines

Top Videos

Most Popular

• HC bars security forces from leaving Shopian 

• Dehradun cops accused of killing man to win medals 

• Second nursing student alleges Andhra MLA raped her 

• CPI-M may decide feuding Kerala leaders' fate 

• CM helpless, admits Maoists extort Rs 300 cr annually 

• Bandh call by Hindu outfit gets mixed response in Mysore 

• Time for Mamata to walk the Budget talk 

• Mamata's Budget Express | Mamata Exclusive | Rail Budget  

• Top bosses fly high as AI struggles to survive 

• 10 years of Kargil, heroes recall the war | Pay Tribute 

• Time for Mamata to walk the Budget talk 

• Watch: Lalu determined to derail Mamata express 

• Praful Patel rules out lay-offs in Air India 

• Top bosses fly high as AI struggles to survive 

• Air India top brass warns employees against strike 

• Watch: Lalu determined to derail Mamata express 

• I have done everything for all the states: Mamata 

• Watch: Aam aadmi rates Rail Budget 2009 

• Cabinet split over order legalising homosexuality  

• For Delhi Daredevils fans it's football in off season 

• Time for Mamata to walk the Budget talk 

• CM helpless, admits Maoists extort Rs 300 cr annually 

• Sarah Palin to step down as Alaska governor: Report  

• HC bars security forces from leaving Shopian 

• Los Angeles officials brace for Jackson memorial 

• North Korea fires two more missiles again 

• 10 years of Kargil, heroes recall the war 

• Fans overlook Michael Jackson's dark side 

• Dehradun cops accused of killing man to win medals 

• CPI-M may decide feuding Kerala leaders' fate 

Photogallery

Find us on Facebook | Join IBNLive community

Stay ahead with G-Talk Buddy | Click now!

New Delhi: An employee of Jet Airways at New Delhi's International Airport died after being hit by a speeding ambulance on Sunday.

Thirty-one-year old Sanjeev Kumar became a victim of reckless driving on the IGI tarmac. Sanjeev, a member of the ground handling staff of Jet Airways, was talking to his senior officials when a speeding ambulance hit him.

“He was standing when the ambulance hit him,” says brother, Pawan.

The ambulance driver has been arrested for negligent driving. Sanjeev's family members say the GMR is to blame.

“There is no one to check the speed of such vehicles,” says Pawan.

However, this is not the first time that such an incident has occurred on the runway. Over the last two-years vehicular traffic on the runway has become almost unmanageable.

On March 27, a 30-year-old labourer from Jharkhand was crushed to death by a road roller near the taxiway of the newly built runway.

Last October, 27-year-old Sanskriti Sinha, an employee with Air Deccan, was found dead between the airport's taxiway and the ramp after allegedly being hit by a vehicle.

About 49 accidents involving aircraft and ground handling vehicles were reported at the airport last year.

As a consequence of sudden increase in air traffic, the number of vehicles on the runway has increased tenfold and the airport authorities haven’t been able to handle such vehicular traffic and this is exactly why people like Sanjeev Kumar are becoming victims of reckless driving.