A 21-year-old motorcyclist died after the two wheeler collided with a car in front of Vedic Village in Rajarhat on Tuesday morning.
Police identified the biker as Dip Mondal, a Rajarhat resident.
Mondal was riding down Lauhati-Bhangar Road, which is a single carriageway that has traffic in both directions and connects Vedic Village to Rajarhat on one end and New Town on the other.
The two-wheeler, going at high speed, collided with a car in front of Vedic Village’s gate number 5 from the opposite direction. Mondal was flung off the bike and landed head first on the asphalt, an officer of the Bidhannagar commissionerate’s traffic wing said.
Mondal did not have a helmet on, the police said. Passersby and residents of the area alerted the police.
A police team and shopkeepers from the area took Mondal to the government-run primary healthcare unit at REC Juani crossing in Rajarhat where he was declared dead.
The impact was such that the entire front of Mondal’s Yamaha R15 was ripped off. The handlebars and the forks were bent on impact, the police said.
The driver fled with the car despite passersby trying to stop him.
“The bike was being ridden at high speed and the rider did not have a helmet on. We are trying to trace the car to speak with the driver to assess the exact sequence of events. Eyewitnesses have told us Mondal was trying to overtake a car and collided with the car coming from the opposite direction. Tyre marks on the road suggest he had tried slamming the brakes but could not keep the bike under control and ended up hitting the car head-on,” the officer said.
Bikers racing down the streets of New Town and Rajarhat are a common sight late at night and early in the morning, residents said.