Famous bike rider and YouTuber, Agastya Chauhan, lost his life while over-speeding on the Yamuna Expressway on March 3. Officials say that Agastya was riding at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour when he lost control of his bike and it hit a divider. He further suffered fatal injuries and died on the spot.
The Tappal police, who received the news of the accident around 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, took custody of the YouTuber’s body which was further sent for post-mortem at Kailash Hospital in Greater Noida. DIG of Aligarh, Anand Kulkarni said that Agastya attempted to hit a speed of 300 kmph while he was driving his Kawasaki-Ninja ZX-10R, HT Auto reported.
The YouTuber was returning to Delhi from Uttarakhand when the mishap occurred. Agastya Chauhan also ran a YouTube channel named “Pro Rider 1000.”
Agra tops in road accident deaths caused by overspeeding
Overspeeding has taken the lives of more people in Agra than any other million-plus city in the state, the transport department revealed in its presentation in an inter-departmental meeting chaired by Supreme Court Committee on Road Safety (SCCoRS) in February.
In Kanpur, an average of 496 people were found to have been killed annually due to wrong-side driving, the highest, followed by Prayagraj (443), Agra (364), Lucknow (249) and Varanasi (154).