Mukesh Sharma

Kalimpong,6 Feb

Saturday morning turned a nightmare for the 11  Crew members of MTV's reality show Roadies which met with an accident at Darjeeling 's Pesok view point under Rangli Rangliot PS . The incident occurred around 7.30-8 am this morning when the crew member Force Traveler vehicle lost control after brake fail and overturned, seriously injuring eleven of them.

Tista ,R R Police and locals along with Tista Rafting Rescue Member immediately rushed to the spot and from there 9 injured were taken to the Kalimpong and 2 seriously was taken to  Siliguri hospital.

The 9 admitted at Kalimpong was later referred to Siliguri which have sustained injury in head , back , leg and chest portion.

Amit Javalgi, Superintendent of Police, Darjeeling district informed 'an accident took place near pesok view point.A mini bus with the vehicle no  AS 01FC9100 carrying crew of roadies overturned .The accident took place at about 8 am. '

The injured which were bouth to Kalimpong Hospital were Magen Basu matary (36) Ashish Ansari(24),Akash Patel (25),Surendra Pràdhàn (35), Sidarth soni(24),John britto(33),Sandeep Bhaskar(29) Bijoy kumar Panday(32)Rabi Rajan kumar(24) where as Santosh Jaiswal(35)and Gaurav Bajaj (32) were taken to Siliguri.

Surendra Pradhan one of the injured inform that the team arrived on 4th Feb to shoot ,We were moving to a location but as the vehicle brake fail we met with an accident but due to our driver we are still alive'