A car carrying an American diplomat hit a motorcycle in Islamabad on Saturday afternoon, killing one man on the spot and injuring another.
Police said Joseph Emanuel Hall, a defense and air attaché at the US embassy in Islamabad, was in a white Land Cruiser with the number plate QM-058.
CCTV footage showed the vehicle crashing into a motorcycle (number plate ARM-900) around 3 pm Saturday when it violated a traffic signal on Margalla Road.
Motorcyclist Ateeq Baig, a resident of the city’s Tilhar suburb, died on the spot, while he was en route to his office with his cousin Raheel riding pillion.
Raheel was critically injured in the accident and, consequently, moved to a nearby hospital.
Following the accident, police reached the spot and brought the diplomat to the police station.
He then ended up locking himself inside the vehicle and subsequently fled in another car.
The police, however, seized the vehicle.
A case was also registered at the Kohsar Police Station later the same day.
The accident occurred to due to sheer negligence of the driver of the embassy’s car, the first information report (FIR) said.
Authorities said officials from the embassy are in contact with the law enforcement agencies (LEAs)
source: geo.tv
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