A six-year-old girl lost her life after a speeding car hit the e-rickshaw she was travelling in with her grandmother, causing the vehicle to overturn in West Delhi’s Janakpuri area. The impact threw both of them onto the road, leaving the child critically injured. Despite her grandmother’s desperate pleas for help, no one immediately stepped forward, and the girl later died during treatment.The family has now performed the girl’s last rites.
The child’s grandmother, 57-year-old Mercy Xavier described how a fast-moving car suddenly slammed into their e-rickshaw. She remembered being thrown onto the road before she could understand what was happening.”I had boarded the e-rickshaw with my granddaughter, and we were on our way to her school. It was an ordinary morning. Suddenly, a speeding car rammed into our rickshaw with tremendous force. Before I could understand what had happened, I was thrown onto the road,” she told news agency,When I opened my eyes, I was lying on the ground. My granddaughter was lying beside me. My hand was soaked in blood. I was in shock and pain, but all I could think about was her,” she added.She recalled begging a nearby car driver to take the child to the hospital.
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