{
  "id": 1406105,
  "title": "‘Drunk’ Driver Mows Down Engineer, Flees After Abandoning Car With Body In Indore",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/drunk-driver-mows-down-engineer-flees-after-abandoning-car-with-body",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-17T02:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/drunk-driver-mows-down-engineer-flees-after-abandoning-car-with-body-in-indore"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A 47-year-old engineer, Chandra Shekhar Patidar, was killed in Indore on Sunday when a speeding car, driven by a drunk driver, struck him on AB Road. The driver later abandoned the vehicle with the engineer's body inside. Patidar, a resident of Silicon City and a private company employee in Pithampur, had gone to his office on what should have been his day off. Locals reported the driver was significantly intoxicated and driving on the wrong side of the road at high speed when the collision occurred. The driver tried to take Patidar to a hospital, but when the car developed a flat tyre near Rau Gol Square and the engineer died, the driver left the vehicle with the body inside. Police were alerted by passersby who discovered the abandoned car and found the body inside. The medical student who was killed in a similar accident on Saturday evening in Khudel police station limits has not been mentioned in this account.",
  "summary": "Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A 47-year-old engineer was killed on Sunday afternoon after a speeding car, allegedly driven by a drunk driver on the wrong side of AB Road, rammed into his two-wheeler under Kishanganj police station limits. The driver later abandoned the car with the victim’s body inside. According to police, the deceased was identified as Chandra Shekhar Patidar, a resident of Silicon…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}