Nagpur: A unidentified man aged about 45 years obtained defeated by a crane being used to paint Metro railroad columns at Santra Market on Wednesday night.
The sufferer was sleeping near a building site once the errant motorist conducted the crane him over at around 8.15pm.
Shortly after the accident, the crane driver fled the place.
The job of Nagpur Metro’s west corridor was under way.
Metro has commissioned the task of painting the columns to ITD company, which divides the job to Universal business.
On Wednesdaythe crane driver of this company was occupied with all the painting of a column.
Though the driver was carrying back his vehicle, an unknown individual sleeping on the street got crushed beneath the wheel of their crane and expired on the place.
Ganeshpeth police officers reached the episode position soon after obtaining the info regarding the accident and sent to the body for postmortem.
The authorities have registered a offence of causing death by neglect from the crane driver.