The video of a road accident from Gujarat’s Vadodara, where a high-speed car rammed into a two-wheeler, killing one woman and injuring four, showed 20-year-old Rakshit Chaurasia at the wheel. Allegedly drunk, Mr Chaurasia hit multiple vehicles and people, before his car came to a halt. He then stepped out of the car and shouted incoherent sentences. He repeatedly shouted, “Another round” and “Om Namah Shivay”, show videos of the incident.<\/p>\n
Hemaliben Patel, who was reportedly out to buy Holi colours, died on the spot<\/a>. The impact of the crash injured four, including Jaini (12), Nishaben (35), an unidentified 10-year-old girl and an unidentified 40-year-old man.<\/p>\n Who Is Rakshit Chaurasia?<\/strong><\/p>\n Rakshit Chaurasia<\/a> hails from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, where his family runs a business of taps. He is currently pursuing law and lives in a Paying Guest accommodation in Vadodara.<\/p>\n According to his LinkedIn profile<\/a>, Mr Chaurasia is a student at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He joined the university to pursue the five-year course in 2021.<\/p>\n Mr Chaurasia and a friend were returning from Dera Circle after dropping another friend with whom they had gone to witness Holika Dahan, a bonfire lit on the eve of Holi.<\/p>\n “We were going ahead of a scooty. We were turning right and there was a pothole on the road. There was a scooty and a car parked near the right turn. Our car touched the scooter and the airbags opened. After that I couldn’t tell where the car went,” he said, narrating the chain of events.<\/p>\n He claims to be driving at a speed of 50-60 kmph at the time of the accident. However, as per the police, the driver was overspeeding.<\/p>\n The car belonged to his friend Meet Chauhan, who was sitting in the co-driver’s seat, DCP Panna Momaya told the reporters. The police are looking to arrest him.<\/p>\n Initially, Mr Chaurasiya denied being drunk or having taken any intoxicants. However, later he admitted to consuming <\/a>bhaang<\/a> <\/em>(cannabis).<\/p>\n The young man has taken full responsibility for the accident. “I was told that one woman has died and a few have sustained injuries. I want to meet the family of the victims, it is my fault and whatever they want should happen,” he said.<\/p>\n \u200bRakshit Chaurasia, a 20-year-old law student has taken full responsibility for the accident that killed one and injured four.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The video of a road accident from Gujarat’s Vadodara, where a high-speed car rammed into a two-wheeler, killing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":97804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/v0m4j01g_vadodara-accident_625x300_15_March_25-oXMgTp.jpeg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/v0m4j01g_vadodara-accident_625x300_15_March_25-oXMgTp-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/v0m4j01g_vadodara-accident_625x300_15_March_25-oXMgTp-300x169.jpeg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/v0m4j01g_vadodara-accident_625x300_15_March_25-oXMgTp-768x432.jpeg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/v0m4j01g_vadodara-accident_625x300_15_March_25-oXMgTp-1024x576.jpeg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/v0m4j01g_vadodara-accident_625x300_15_March_25-oXMgTp.jpeg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/v0m4j01g_vadodara-accident_625x300_15_March_25-oXMgTp.jpeg",1200,675,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/v0m4j01g_vadodara-accident_625x300_15_March_25-oXMgTp-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/v0m4j01g_vadodara-accident_625x300_15_March_25-oXMgTp-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}