If not intentional, why did driver flee: Gurugram hit-and-run survivor hits back

Gurugram hit-and-run survivor, Sia, has shared her first statement on the incident since the video of a car ramming her bike and throwing her off the vehicle went viral on social media. She reacted to the accused, Kalyan Bainsla, claiming to India Today TV in an interview that he did not deliberately hit her bike and in fact feels "bad" for her. In a video statement, she hit back and said if his claims were indeed true, then instead of fleeing the spot, he would have stopped and helped her. "Such a sympathy-seeking character does not suit him (accused) at all," Sia said in the video on Instagram.

Bainsla alleged that there were more than 20 bikers, including the woman, and that they were repeatedly changing their speed and slowing down at frequent intervals. He also claimed the bikers pinched him and that he was unaware of a woman riding the bike.

To this, Sia said that even if the accused felt the bikers were changing their speed constantly, it did not warranty him the right to chase her throughout the road.

She also rejected Bainsla's claim of being unaware that the biker was a woman. "This is absolutely untrue. He noticed my plaited hair from behind. He saw that, chased me, asked me to stop the car and then acted accordingly."

In his interview, Bainsla also questioned the CCTV footage, saying that the sequence shown in the viral videos did not present the entire picture. He also questioned the release of only two videos and demanded the survivor's friend's name be revealed.

Countering him, Sia said that the videos vividly show the brutal manner in which he rammed her with his car.

"In a hit-and-run case, how are two videos not enough? One video clearly shows the driver switching to the third lane from the first, hitting me and fleeing. Another front-angle video also shows him switching lanes, ramming my bike and running off. I was thrown off, dragged under his car. Are these two videos not enough for proof?" She asked in the Instagram video.

She said that even a delay of two to three seconds could have caused her far more injuries, including multiple fractures. "I could have died on the spot."

"If the driver felt such concern for me, it was his responsibility to stop, step out of his car, and check to see if there were any injuries...Such a sympathy-seeking character does not suit him at all. All the videos show how he rammed my bike and fled the spot without even stopping for a second to see if I was dead or alive. I feel ashamed of such people...they don't realise that there are women in their families as well," Sia said in her video statement, stressing that such incidents make women feel unsafe on Gurugram and Delhi roads.

The incident took place on Gurugram's Golf Course Road on Sunday morning when Sia was riding with fellow bikers. She was injured after Bainsla, driving a white sedan, rammed her bike in what police are treating as a suspected hit-and-run case. The collision was captured on an action camera mounted on her superbike and the footage subsequently went viral on social media. Gurugram Police took suo motu cognisance of the incident and registered an FIR against an unidentified person.

However, Kalyan Bainsla has not been arrested yet.