The 20-year-old male accused in the last week’s Ahmedabad bridge accident which claimed nine lives has told police he also rammed an SUV into the compound wall of a restaurant here on July 3, an official said on Monday.
The accused, Tathya Patel, “confessed” to police about his involvement in the incident earlier this month after the restaurant owner approached the city traffic police on Saturday to lodge a complaint against the unidentified driver of Thar SUV, the official said.
In his police complaint, restaurant owner Mihir Shah said the registration number of the Thar SUV that rammed into the compound wall of his establishment on July 3 was similar (barring one alphabet) to the number of Jaguar car driven by Patel that ploughed into a crowd gathered on the ISKCON flyover on July 20.
Nine persons, including a constable, were killed when the speeding Jaguar car driven by Patel ploughed into a crowd gathered at an accident site on the ISKCON bridge here on July 20, police said.