NEW DELHI: A 27-year-old woman suffered a fracture in her leg after being hit by a Mercedes car in east Delhi’s Anand Vihar area, police said on Monday.The accident occurred at around 3.45pm when the woman was hit by the vehicle driven by another woman.According to the police, the victim, Akshita Aggarwal, a resident of Jhilmil, was in front of gate number 4 of Rishabh Vihar along with her younger sibling, waiting for a rickshaw to take them to the Karkardooma Metro station. Meanwhile, a black Mercedes car came from Vivek Vihar side and hit Aggarwal. The impact threw her on the ground, and as it happened, the driver ran over her right leg, police said. The driver, though she came out of the car, fled the scene after she saw Aggarwal crying, they said. Aggarwal noted down the registration number of the car. The driver has been booked under sections 279 (rash driving) and 338 (causing grievous hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others) of the Indian Penal Code at Anand Vihar police station, police said. A senior police officer said that an investigation is under way in the matter.(With inputs from PTI)
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