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Car racer Ashwin Sundar, his wife charred to death in road mishap

| | Mar 18, 2017, at 04:05 pm
Chennai, Mar 18 (IBNS): Professional car racer Ashwin Sundar and his wife Nivedhitha were charred to death in early hours of Saturday as their car rammed into a roadside tree in Chennai, media reports said.

Sundar was driving the car which hit a tree on the Santhome High Road in Chennai.

According to reports, the couple could not come out of the car with the doors getting jammed and the vehicle being trapped between a wall and the tree. The car then caught fire and the couple was charred to death.

Passersby, who saw the vehicle on fire, alerted the Chennai city police control room.

A team of police personnel rushed to the spot.

Sundar's wife was doctor in a private hospital.

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