The 27-year-old drunk Merchant Navy sailor, whose over-speeding BMW car killed one of his companions in an accident during the pre-dawn hours of May 12 in Juhu, is yet to be arrested in the case, though he has been discharged from a hospital in Malad. On Tuesday, the sailor Adhvaryu Bandekar, and his mother Neha Bandekar, told mid-day the speed-breaker on the road led to the accident. The accused denied he was drunk at the time of the accident. The relatives of the deceased have said that had the driver not been drunk, he could have easily seen the speed breaker—which was hurriedly redesigned by civic officials after the accident.

Accused speak

“I was not drunk at all when the accident took place. I could not see the speed-breaker where my car jumped and met with an accident just outside Juhu police station,” Bandekar told mid-day. Four people including Bandekar, Pallabi Bhattacharya, Bharti Rai and Ankit Khare had gone to the high-end pub, Opa Bar & Cafe in Sakinaka, barely three hours before the accident.