Overview
- The MG Hector carrying a family rammed into a small culvert divider near the Dharad toll plaza at about 3:30 AM on Sunday, killing Dr. Manish Singh at the scene.
- Dr. Singh’s 80-year-old father-in-law, Shivnarayan Rajauria, died during treatment the following morning and five other family members remain hospitalized.
- Police identified the driver as Ajay Gupta and said preliminary findings indicate he likely dozed off at the wheel, with a formal investigation now under way.
- Toll-plaza ambulance crews, Bilpank police led by Assistant Sub-Inspector Samsu Agrawal, and local residents extricated the occupants and rushed them to Government Medical College Hospital, Ratlam.
- Dr. Singh had been posted in Ratlam for about a year after service with the National Health Mission in Bhopal, and his death removes an active pediatric specialist from local health services while investigators continue to probe the crash.