Amit Kajaria and his wife Kanika, who were in the Mercedes that was hit by a Jaguar early on Saturday before their car hurtled into two bystanders killing them at the Loudon Street-Theatre Road crossing, were released from hospital on Tuesday.

A team of officers from Lalbazar recorded their statements before they left the AMRI hospital in Dhakuria.

Amit is said to have told police that he only remembered the crash in “bits and pieces”.

An officer quoted Amit as saying: “The signal turned green and I was driving. Then something hit me with a loud noise and I lost control of the car.”

Amit said he was unaware where his car went after it got rammed in the middle of the road, police sources said.

Kanika, who was sitting next to her husband when the accident happened, still looked dazed when she stepped out of the hospital around 8pm.

Kanika told the police that she fainted immediately after hearing a crashing sound and the next memory was of her being in the hospital.

The security staff were kept on alert as the two exited the private hospital.

“Now that they know the magnitude of the incident, they are concerned about its legal implications,” said an officer in Lalbazar. He said they were worried about if they could be questioned further.

The Jaguar — which was travelling along Theatre Road from Chowringhee and heading towards Park Circus — had allegedly jumped a red light and rammed into the Mercedes that was travelling along Loudon Street.

Kanika Kajaria leaves AMRI Dhakuria on Tuesday. Picture by Gautam Bose

Amit, who was in the driving seat, received serious injuries in his left ear that almost got severed and needed plastic surgery.

On Tuesday evening, Amit held on to his left ear as he stepped out of the hospital.

The police had also asked Amit about his driving habits — cars he drove, speed at which he usually drives.

“He said he was travelling at a speed expected at night when traffic is thin,” said another officer.

The Kajarias own eastern India’s largest warehouse for liquid products such as a petroleum in Budge Budge.

A hospital official said they were out of the post-crash trauma and the CT scan report was fine.

“The police had requested us to inform them before the release so that they could record their statements at the hospital,” the official said.

Officials from car-maker Jaguar extracted on Tuesday the event data recorder (EDR) from the vehicle. The EDR is expected to be decoded on Wednesday.

Investigators said prima facie they were treating the Jaguar as the “offending vehicle” that rammed into the Mercedes and forced it to hit two pedestrians causing their death.

Arsalan Parwez, 21, the youth who was at the wheel of the Jaguar, was arrested on Saturday and a city court remanded him in police custody till August 29. The charges, if proved before the court, could result in an maximum punishment of 10 years in jail.

A senior police officer said Jaguar officials had come from New Delhi to extract the EDR on Tuesday. But as the work to decode the device was specialised, it will be done by another officer, the police said.

“The EDR has been successfully extracted. We are expecting to get vital information relating to the speed to the vehicle, if the vehicle developed any mechanical fault or if there was anything unusual in the functioning of the car seconds before the crash,” said joint commissioner (crime) Murlidhar Sharma.