A 15-year-old boy riding pillion on his father‘s two-wheeler suffered fatal wounds after the vehicle skidded and both fell off it on Diamond Harbour Road in Behala on Monday afternoon.

Both Dip Shankar Santra and son Dipesh were wearing helmets, police said.

“The father and the son fell off the bike after it skid-ded. The boy suffered multi-ple injuries and fractured his ribs. Preliminary opin-ions by doctors suggest his lungs were punctured. He was taken to Vidyasagar State General Hospital, where he died in the evening,” said an officer of the traffic department.

The father suffered relatively minor injuries and was discharged after treatment. The Santras live in a rented apartment at Amtala in Bishnupur, South 24 Parganas.

They are originally from Panchla in Howrah. Many of the officers said this was an unusual accident as neither the victim nor the vehicle had been hit by any other vehicle.

“The boy might have survived had he not fallen the way he did,” said an officer. However, a section of the police feels that two-wheelers have higher chances of skidding on a congested or crowded road.

Officers of the fatal squad of the traffic police said they were investigating the circumstances leading to the accident.

In 2020, out of the 201 people who died in road accidents in the city, as many as 64 were two-wheeler riders or pillion riders. Of the 64 victims, 39 people died while driving two-wheelers and 25 suffered fatal wounds while riding pillion.

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